Lisa Jo Chamberlin is a woman from Mississippi who was sentenced to death for the murders of two people
Lisa Jo Chamberlin and her boyfriend Roger Gillett were manufacturing meth when they heard a rumor that a woman was talking to police about their operation
Lisa Jo Chamberlin and Roger Gillett would travel to the woman’s home and once there they discovered her and her boyfriend. Lisa Jo and Roger would murder both of them
Lisa Jo Chamberlin would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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Lisa Jo Chamberlin is currently incarcerated at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility
Lisa Jo Chamberlin Appeal Denied
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday announced it would not review a Mississippi death row inmate’s case after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated her sentence last year.
Lisa Chamberlin and her then-boyfriend, Roger Lee Gillett, were convicted of two counts capital murder in the March 2004 slayings of Gillet’s cousin, Vernon Hulett, 34, and Hulett’s girlfriend, Linda Heintzelman, 37, in Hattiesburg. Their bodies were transported to Kansas in a freezer.
Chamberlin is the only woman on Mississippi’s death row. The Supreme Court’s ruling means her death sentence stands.
The dismembered bodies were found at an abandoned farmhouse owned by Gillett’s father.
Both were sentenced to death. Gillett’s sentence has since been reduced and he is serving a life sentence with the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
The Supreme Court does not explain why it declines to hear some cases.
The Cornell University Legal Information Institute explains that the Supreme Court’s decision to deny the petition doesn’t mean the court agrees with the lower court’s ruling.
“It simply means that fewer than four justices determined that the circumstances of the decision of the lower court warrant a review by the Supreme Court,” the LII website explains.