Associated Press - November 18, 2009 11:45 AM ET

HOUSTON (AP) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the conviction of a man on death row for a Houston shooting rampage almost 30 years ago that killed three people and maimed another.

Max Alexander Soffar, now 53, spent 23 years on death row before a federal appeals court threw out his conviction in 2004 because of inadequate counsel. He was retried in 2006 and convicted again for killing 17-year-old Arden Alane Felsher.

She was shot to death July 1980 when Soffar was robbing 25-year-old Stephen Allen Sims, an assistant manager at the Fair Lanes Windfern Bowling Center in Houston. Sims and Felsher's 17-year-old boyfriend, Tommy Lee Temple, also were killed.

Eighteen-year-old Gregory George Garner was shot in the head, lost his left eye, but survived to testify against Soffar.

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