The Ohio Supreme Court will be asked to set a new execution date for a killer who lost his final legal appeal.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of William Wickline, who was convicted of killing and dismembering a Columbus-area couple more than two decades ago.

Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says he will seek an execution date as soon as the court paperwork reaches his office.

The 51-year-old Wickline was convicted of killing 25-year-old Peggy Ann Lerch and her husband, 28-year-old Christopher Lerch, during an argument over six-thousand dollars in drug money in August of 1982.

A former girlfriend testified that Wickline murdered the couple and dismembered both bodies and placed the body parts in garbage bags that he pitched in trash bins around the city. The bodies were never found.