MS Woman To Stay On Death Row
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from Lisa Jo Chamberlin, who was seeking a new trial after being sentenced to death in the deaths of a Hattiesburg, Miss., couple whose bodies were found in a freezer in rural Kansas.
A Mississippi court denied her post-conviction petition last fall.
Chamberlin had claimed – among other things – that her trial attorney failed to question prospective jurors about their feelings about the death penalty, failed to raise the issue of her drug addiction and failed to raise the issue of her dominance by a co-defendant.
In a post-conviction petition, an inmate argues he or she has found new evidence or a possible constitutional issue that could persuade a court to order a new trial.
