Updated: 3:50 PM CDT Apr 23, 2021 The Associated Press An Alabama state appeals court has rejected the latest appeal of a man sentenced to death in the murder of an Auburn University student abducted from campus and slain in 2008. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals let stand the capital murder conviction of Courtney Lockhart in the killing of Lauren Burk, a freshman from Marietta, Georgia. Prosecutors argued that Lockhart surprised Burk and forced her into her car at gunpoint, then made her undress in the vehicle and shot her in the back when she tried to jump out of her moving car. She died after being found along a roadside.
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