BATON ROUGE — District Attorney Hillar Moore said he plans to sign a death warrant for convicted killer Todd Wessinger after a federal appeals court denied his request to rehear an appeal of his murder conviction from the 1990s.
Moore said that he intends to sign the warrant, a legal order that would set the date, time and location for the state to execute a death-row inmate. He said he wants to “move forward the jury’s decision for the death penalty” for Wessinger.
If a judge signs off on the warrant, an execution will be scheduled…