By Associated Press
3:40 PM CDT, September 22, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of a man who fatally shot three people at a state highway garage.
Tennessee's highest court on Wednesday affirmed a Court of Criminal Appeals' decision to uphold David Lynn Jordan's convictions and three death sentences.
The Court set David Jordan's execution date for Sept. 27, 2011.
Jordan killed his estranged wife Donna Jordan, state Agriculture Department worker Jerry Hopper and David Gordon on Jan. 11, 2005. Two other people in the Department of Transportation garage were wounded during the shooting spree.
In an unanimous opinion, the Court did address for the first time whether Tennessee's rule of witness sequestration applies to capital sentencing trials.
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