HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — An Alabama appeals court today again rejected a request by Joey Wilson to revisit his capital murder case, the notorious 1996 cell phone murders.

Four people were killed and two seriously wounded in a house off U.S. 72-University Drive shortly before midnight on Sept. 25, 1996. Wilson and another man, Nick Acklin, were both given death sentences for the killings.

Michael Beaudette, Bryan Carter, Johnny Couch and Charles Hemphill were killed; two others, Michelle Hayden and Ashley Rutherford, were seriously injured.

Wilson was convicted of capital murder in 1998. His direct appeals were denied in 2001; he filed a Rule 32 petition, arguing he did not get a fair trial.

Wilson's lawyers claimed a number of problems, both in the trial phase and the penalty phase of

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