A Nevada state court has now denied a second appeal from convicted murderer and death row inmate James Biela. 

The ruling was made earlier this week. 

Biela was convicted in May 2010 of killing college student Brianna Denison. Authorities say he abducted Denison while she slept on a friend’s couch near the University of Nevada campus in January 2008. Her body was found a month later in a south Reno field. 

Biela remains on death row in state prison in Ely.

He also was charged with and convicted of sexually assaulting two other women in the months before Denison's disappearance.

In 2013, Republican Governor Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill 243 into law. 'Brianna’s Law' requires DNA samples from people arrested on felony charges. Supporters of the law claim it may have saved Denison's life it if had been enacted earlier because Biela had a previous felony arrest.Â