Driskill Appeals To State Supreme Court

The State Supreme Court will hear an appeal this week from a death row inmate convicted of murdering an elderly Laclede County Couple in 2010. 34 year old Jesse Driskill was sentenced to death last year for the murders of Johnnie and Coleen Wilson. Driskill claims because he was denied medication for panic attacks, he was unable to testify during his trial and that it also prevented him from participating in his own defense. He’s also challenging the court’s decision denying him a new competency hearing as well as what evidence the jury was and was not allowed to review when considering his punishment.