LINCOLN COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – The Lincoln County man on death row, who was convicted of in the 2017 killings of eight people, will appear in court for a hearing on Monday, June 23.

The Daily Leader reported Willie Cory Godbolt will attend a hearing at 11:00 a.m. to determine if he’s indigent or impoverished.

This comes after the Mississippi Supreme Court declined to rehear Godbolt’s appeal in May 2024. The Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel appointed counsel to provide representation to Godbolt in post-conviction proceedings.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied to hear Godbolt’s case in April 2025.

In 2020, Lincoln County jurors found Godbolt guilty of all 12 counts against him, including four counts of murder and four counts of capital murder. He received a sentence of life in prison for each murder conviction and a death sentence for each capital murder conviction.

Godbolt shot and killed eight people in May 2017, including his mother-in-law and a Lincoln County deputy, during a house-to-house shooting rampage.

Godbolt is on death row at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.