Condemned Man Won’t Get New Trial

DNA testing on a single hair failed to win a new trial in Greenwood, S.C., for a man on death row for 18 years for the rape and murder of a 75-year-old widow. Defense attorneys said Edward Lee Elmore couldn’t be the killer because genetic analysis showed that a pubic hair found at the scene was from a white person. Elmore is black. “One hair isn’t enough,” Circuit Judge J. Ernest Kinard Jr. ruled. Elmore, 41, was condemned for the slaying of Dorothy Edwards, who was stabbed 52 times in 1982. He has never faced an execution date. Elmore said he will appeal to the state Supreme Court.