Convicted child rapist and murderer's death sentence upheld
ATLANTA -- The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence ordered for a Crisp County man in the 1998 killing of a 3-year-old boy.
The court on Monday unanimously upheld the sentence for 48-year-old Roger Lynn Loyd in the killing of Tevin Hammonds.
Evidence at Loyd's trial showed the child's mother left him with Loyd, who admitted to police after a search began that he had killed the child and left the body in a mound of dirt.
The high court ruled the trial court did not err by failing to grant a postponement to study a psychological profile of the defendant. It said that at the sentencing trial, the court heard from several mental health professionals who testified that Loyd had a history of severe mental illness.
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