The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled, for the second consecutive time, that it would not consider an appeal by a death-row inmate who was convicted of stabbing to death a woman he lived with.
Timothy Ronk, convicted of capital robbery in Harrison County in 2010, was charged with the murder of Michelle Craite in August 2008. He was sentenced to death for capital murder and a 30 year sentence for armed theft.
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To cover up his crime, Ronk, according to prosecutors, stabbed Craite, then burned down her home in the Woolmarket neighborhood, located near Biloxi.
The Mississippi Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal filed by Timothy Ronk, a death row inmate.
Prosecutors said that he then took the items from Craite, and gave them to an online woman in Florida he had met. Defense attorneys claimed that Ronk had stabbed Craite out of self-defense.
In a decision issued on Thursday, the Supreme Court of New York rejected Ronk’s latest attempt to claim that his legal representation was ineffective. The ruling is similar to that of the same court in 2019.
No date for execution has been set. Ronk, 44 years old, is in death row at Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman.