The nation’s highest court on Monday decided against reviewing the cases of two Alabama Death Row inmates.

In its weekly decision list, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari—or requests to review—the cases of David Freeman and Benjamin Young.

The two men are behind bars on death row, which is located inside William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.

Freeman, 54, was convicted of stabbing 17-year-old Sylvia Gordon and her mother after the teen turned down his romantic advances. Freeman was 18 when he was arrested and charged with the Montgomery County slaying. His first conviction was overturned on appeal, but he was again convicted and sentenced to death in 1996.

Freeman had pleaded not guilty by reason of mental defect or disease.

The state appellate courts upheld his convictions, and Freeman’s case then wound its way through the federal court system before Monday’s denial from the justices.

Young, 36, was convicted in the March 2016 shooting death of Ki-Jana Freeman. Freeman, of Tuscumbia, was killed while he sat in a friend’s car outside of an apartment complex in Colbert County. The teenager was shot approximately 15 times with an assault rifle, court records state.

His defense team argued in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that there was no physical evidence tying Young to the shooting, and the prosecutors at trial shouldn’t have been allowed to introduce “irrelevant and highly prejudicial evidence” regarding Young’s gang affiliations, according to the Supreme Court petition.

The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Young’s conviction and sentence in 2021, and the Alabama Supreme Court also declined to review the case in October 2022.