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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's two Supreme Court appointees waded into the nuances of the death penalty Wednesday, showing a difference in style on one of the perennial controversies confronting the high court.
How Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito vote in the case out of South Carolina could determine the limits states can impose on defendants who try to blame someone else during death penalty trials.
A trial judge excluded evidence that Bobby Lee Holmes wanted to present at trial that accused another man in the 1989 beating, rape and robbery of Mary Stewart, 86, who later died of her injuries.
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