The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear appeals from two Mississippi death row inmates. The nation's high court without comment Monday denied petitions from death row inmates Derrick Walker and Quintez Hodges. Both inmates have more avenues of appeals.

The Mississippi Supreme Court had upheld both convictions and death sentences in March.

Walker was sentenced to death in 2003 for the stabbing death of Charles Richardson. Walker was convicted of capital murder and arson. Hodges was sentenced to death in 2001 for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Issac Johnson, and kidnapping Johnson's sister, Cora Johnson, and her baby.