SCOTUS Denies Indiana Murderer's Appeal:  An Indiana man convicted of setting a fire that killed two children has lost his bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court consider his claim that his attorney at sentencing was incompetent.  Mark Wilson of the Evansville Courier & Press reports that habitual criminal Jeffrey Weisheit, sentenced to death in 2013, claimed that his attorney's failure to thoroughly question jurors or present enough mitigating evidence at the sentencing hearing prejudiced his case, requiring that his sentence be overturned.  The high court denied review.  The state Supreme Court's November 2018 decision had held that the errors were harmless and that "overwhelming evidence of his guilt" supported his sentence.  Facts recounted in the decision indicate that in April 2010, Weisheit was living with his pregnant girlfriend when she left her eight-year-old daughter and five-year-old son in his care while she was at work.  After tying up the boy, Weisheit set fire to the house and drove off.  Both children died. When police located him in Kentucky, he resisted arrest and had to be tazed.