BOISE -- The Idaho Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a death row inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection on June 12.
The court ruled in a 10-page decision that the 7th District Court did not err in issuing a death warrant for 54-year-old Richard A. Leavitt entered on May 17 or in denying a motion by Leavitt to quash the death warrant.
Leavitt was convicted of the 1984 stabbing murder of Blackfoot resident Danette Elg. Prosecutors say he stabbed her repeatedly and then cut out her sexual organs.
Leavitt is being held at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution south of Boise with 15 other death row inmates.
If Leavitt's execution moves forward he will become the second person executed by the state in the last seven months.
