Mr elmore would spend 27 years on death row , despite strong circumstantial evidence suggesting that he did not commit the crime .
埃尔默后来在死囚牢狱中度过了27年,尽管有很强的间接证据表明他并没有犯下那个罪行。
Mentally disabled and barely literate , mr elmore was 14 years old when he dropped out of school .
智力上的缺陷以及知识的匮乏,elmore在他14岁的时候就辍学了。
They had mr elmore testify , a rarity in murder trials , and they called no other witnesses .
他们让elmore自己作证,这是在谋杀案件中少有的事,他们称没有其他证人了。
It took the jury less than three hours to convict mr elmore , and an additional 50 minutes to sentence him to death .
陪审团只用了不到三个小时就给埃尔默定了罪,然后用了50分钟判他死刑。
The johnson case hardened holt 's opposition to the death penalty and strengthened her resolve to win a new trial for edward lee elmore .
约翰逊案坚定了霍尔特反对死刑的信心,并且增强了对爱德华李埃尔莫案重新获审的信心。
That alone seemed sufficient to warrant a new trial for elmore , but the judge in the case ruled otherwise .
单这一证据看起来就已经可以有效地保证能对埃尔莫案重新开审,但是此案的法官却不这么认为。
Holt has strong personal opinions about johnson 's and elmore 's innocence . At root , though , her objection to the death penalty isn 't so much moral as it is practical . " There is no way to implement it fairly , " she says .
Environmentalism may come first in the company 's mission statement , but it goes last in the business pitch , elmore says .
爱尔莫表示,一些公司可能会将环境保护列为公司宗旨的第一条,但在实际商业经营中却把它排在了最后一位。
Elmore 's currently working to increase composting at publix and revolutionize food court waste in two locations , one in atlanta and another in washington , d.c.
A rotund man with a voice that can scratch glass and a propensity for members only-style jackets , he resembles a teamsters official as imagined by the late elmore leonard .