US Supreme Court denies appeals of Ohio man who burned woman alive, inmate awaits execution

Supreme Court denies OH death row inmate’s appeals

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied appeals by an Ohio inmate scheduled to be executed Wednesday for locking a woman in a car trunk and burning her alive.

The high court on Tuesday denied two appeals by 39-year Daniel Wilson. The move comes a day after Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland rejected clemency.

In one of Wilson’s appeals, he argued that he should be allowed to continue a challenge of Ohio’s lethal injection procedures.

Wilson was sentenced to death for the May 4, 1991 slaying of 24-year-old Carol Lutz, who he had just met and spent several hours drinking with at a bar in Elyria in northeast Ohio.

Wilson would be the first inmate executed in Ohio since Nov. 19.