Death row inmate asks Ohio Supreme Court for stay

May 13, 2011 at 8:00p.m.

COLUMBUS (AP) — A man scheduled to be executed Tuesday for a 1984 double slaying has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to block the lethal injection.

The request came Friday, the same day Gov. John Kasich denied clemency and a Hamilton County judge rejected a civil lawsuit aimed at stopping Daniel Bedford’s execution. A Supreme Court notice says the 63-year-old Bedford has asked the high court for a stay.

Bedford’s attorneys have argued that he can’t remember the killings and suffers from dementia that would prevent him from understanding what would be happening to him.

Bedford was sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in Cincinnati.