JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A death row inmate is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to allow him to file a post-conviction petition seeking a new trial for his role in the 2004 slaying of a Hattiesburg couple.

The appeal by Roger Lee Gillett is among dozens the Supreme Court will consider during its March-April term.

The Supreme Court upheld Gillett’s capital murder conviction and death sentence in 2010.

In a post-conviction petition, an inmate argues he has found new evidence – or a possible constitutional issue – that could persuade a court to order a new trial.

Gillett was one of two people charged in the 2004 deaths of Linda Heintzelman and Heintzelman’s boyfriend, Vernon Hullett. Their bodies were found stuffed in a freezer that Gillett transported to rural Russell County, Kansas.