Caleb Corrothers, aka Caleb Carrothers, the Oxford man convicted of two counts of capital murder in 2011 for the shooting deaths of Frank and Taylor Clark, will remain on death row after the Mississippi Supreme Court denied his motion for a rehearing on Thursday.

Corrothers, 39, was sentenced to death for the 2009 murders of the Clarks, who were fatally shot during a botched drug deal in Lafayette County. He was also convicted of aggravated assault for shooting Tanya Clark, the wife of Frank and mother of Taylor. Despite being critically wounded in the incident, Tanya survived.

In May 2011, Corrothers was sentenced to death for the murders and to life in prison for the assault. His convictions were initially upheld by the Mississippi Supreme Court, and his efforts to appeal for a new trial or post-trial hearing were unsuccessful.

However, in 2017, Corrothers sought post-conviction relief, raising multiple legal issues. While the court denied most of his claims, it granted a hearing for a juror-bias allegation involving a female juror who Corrothers claimed improperly communicated with Tanya Clark during the trial.

In March 2023, an evidentiary hearing was held where Corrothers presented testimony from two witnesses — his mother and cousin — who claimed to have seen the juror mouth the words “we got it” to Clark during the trial.

However, the trial judge found these witnesses not credible due to their personal interest in the case and subsequently denied post-conviction relief.

Corrothers appealed the trial judge’s decision, arguing that his right to compulsory process was violated and that the judge had wrongly dismissed the credibility of his witnesses.

In December 2024, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that the trial judge had not erred in disregarding the testimony, finding that credibility determinations are within the purview of the trial court and must be respected.

Corrothers filed another motion for a rehearing in February.

On Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court denied Corrothers’s motion for a rehearing, affirming its earlier decision to reject his claims of juror bias.