A 72-year-old man is set to face execution for a crime committed in 1996. He was convicted of kidnapping and strangling a person, whose body was found in a wooded area. This area had previously been linked to multiple deaths.

The man has maintained his innocence, arguing that the evidence against him was not conclusive. He was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Further details about the case and the events surrounding it are available.

The execution would be the 15th carried out this year.