Supreme Court Rejects Case of Woman on Alabama Death Row

Heather Leavell-Keaton (L), 22, is led into the courtroom by a sheriff's deputy as she appears for a bail hearing in Mobile County District Court in Mobile, Ala., on Dec. 14, 2010. Press-Register, Mike Kittrell/AP Photo

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court is leaving in place the sentence of a woman on death row in Alabama who helped her boyfriend kill his two young children.

The high court on Monday rejected an appeal from lawyers for Heather Leavell-Keaton. As is typical, the court rejected the case without comment.