He beat the death penalty twice, but the Dallas man who killed civil rights icon Fred Finch in the 1980's will now spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Kenneth Wayne Thomas has been up for execution twice for the gruesome stabbing deaths of Fred and Milford Finch in their south Dallas home.
Finch was a high-profile civil rights attorney who founded the Dallas Examiner newspaper.
Thomas got the death penalty twice for the murders, but each time it was overturned, partly because of Thomas' limited mental capacity.
Rather than having a third death penalty hearing, the state finally agreed to a sentence of life without parole. Thomas also appealed that. An appeals court dismissed that claim in 2021, finding the appeal frivolous.
Thomas again appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals which has now dismissed the case without scheduling arguments.
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