The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled for the second time that it will not reconsider the appeal of a death row inmate convicted of stabbing a woman he lived with.
Timothy Ronk was convicted in 2010 of capital murder and armed robbery in Harrison County for the August 2008 killing of Michelle Kreit. He was sentenced to death for secret murder and was further sentenced to 30 years in prison for armed robbery.
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Prosecutors said Ronke stabbed Crait and set fire to her home in the Woolmarket area near Biloxi to cover up the crime.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has refused to review death row inmate Timothy Ronk's appeal.
He then took the items from Crait and gave them to a Florida woman he met online, prosecutors said. The defense argued that Ronke stabbed Crait in self-defense.
In a Thursday ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected Ronk's new effort to argue that his legal representation was invalid. This is similar to the same court's 2019 ruling on his case.
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No execution date has been set. Ronk, 44, is on death row at Parchman Prison in Mississippi.
