The Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday declined to grant a new trial or revisit the death sentence of Richard S. Baumhammers, rejecting his appeal.

Mr. Baumhammers, 43, was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder and the aggravated assault and attempted murder of a sixth person in a racially motivated killing rampage in April 2000. His sixth victim, who was paralyzed, died in 2007.

Mr. Baumhammers is now on death row at the State Correctional Institution Greene. His attorney, Thomas J. Farrell, argued before the court in March, giving 16 reasons why he should receive a new trial or death sentence proceeding.

One of his arguments: that jurors in Mr. Baumhammers' trial were unduly influenced by extensive media coverage of the crimes and should have been picked from another county. Writing for the court, Justice Seamus P. McCaffery dismissed the argument because Mr. Baumhammers specifically requested that the trial be held in Allegheny County.