A Baton Rouge man convicted of double murder saw his path to avoid the death penalty get narrower this week when a federal judge denied a request to reconsider his sentence and the governor said he would not consider giving him clemency.
Todd Wessinger was convicted of killing two of his former restaurant coworkers in Baton Rouge in 1995.
On Monday, Wessinger’s attorneys filed a request with the state Board of Pardons to recommend that the governor amend his sentence to life without parole and take him off death row…