Plea to spare Alderman's life rejected

The federal appeals court in Atlanta rejected an appeal of death row inmate Jack Alderman. condemned to die Sept. 16 for the 1974 slaying of his wife in Chatham County.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's denial of Alderman's challenge to Georgia's lethal injection method.
The district court judge had dismissed Alderman's appeal, saying he waited too long to raise the claim after the Legislature adopted lethal injection in October 2001.
The Georgia Supreme Court issued a stay of execution in October while the U.S. Supreme Court considered the issue of lethal injection. The nation's high court ruled earlier this year that it does not violate the Constitution.
Georgia has executed two men since then.