The Associated Press

AKRON - Prosecutors are arguing that convicted killer Richard Wade Cooey is out of appeals and the Ohio Supreme Court should set an execution date.

Summit County prosecutors filed a motion Thursday that could put Cooey in line behind four other death row inmates already scheduled for execution in the next two months.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Cooey's latest appeal.

Cooey, 35, was convicted of the 1986 killings of University of Akron sophomores Wendy Offredo, 21, and Dawn McCreery, 20. He was found guilty of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, felonious assault and kidnapping for the purpose of engaging in forcible sexual activity.

"As far as we know, the defendant has exhausted all of his state and federal appeals and there is no reason not to execute the sentence," said Assistant Summit County Prosecutor Philip Bogdanoff.

However, Cooey's lawyer, Margery Koosed, plans to ask the high court to reconsider.

Such requests are rarely granted.

Koosed said the request should delay the setting of an execution date by the Ohio Supreme Court.

Koosed said the prosecution's request for an execution date is "quite premature" and that there are "significant issues and fundamental flaws that have never been corrected."

The state's next scheduled execution is set for April 29. David Brewer, of Greene County, would be the second inmate to die by lethal injection this year.