LEXINGTON, Miss.–Kenneth Williams has lost his second appeal and will remain in prison for killing his aunt during a Christmas party in 2014.
Williams, 36, was sentenced to life in prison without parole or early release, in 2020.
He lost his first appeal in December, and his second at the end of last week.
Williams and his attorneys appealed on the grounds that they believed heresay evidence was used during trial and that his right not to testify was denied during closing statements.
Williams was convicted of murdering his aunt, Fay Ann Noel, with a shotgun during a family argument at a Christmas party. Noel was the warden at the Mississippi State Prison at Parchman.
