Lee County man loses appeal in 2008 murder of Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk
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Courtney Lockhart, now 36, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in the 2008 abduction and killing of Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk. (ADOC)
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An Alabama appeals court has let stand the capital murder conviction and death sentence of a former U.S. Army soldier convicted in the 2008 abduction and killing of an Auburn University freshman.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals issued the ruling Friday against 36-year-old Courtney Lockhart. He was convicted in the slaying of Lauren Burk.
Evidence at trial showed Burk, an 18-year-old from Georgia, was kidnapped from a campus parking lot March 4, 2008. She had just left her boyfriend and was headed to the library.
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