The condemned Ohio inmate scheduled to die next week has chosen not to appeal the judge's order allowing his execution.

The Associated Press reports Mark Wiles, who is scheduled to die next week isn't appealing the ruling set by the judge.

He would be the first inmate put to death in Ohio in six months following legal battles over Ohio's execution policies.

Wiles was sentenced to die for killing his employers' son,15-year-old Mark Klima in a Portage County farmhouse robbery in in 1985. He stabbed the teen with the knife used to cut his birthday cake the day before.

Wiles' attorney told the AP his client was not appealing but declined to say why or comment
further.

Mark Wiles of Portage County will be put to death, as scheduled, April 18th -- if one federal judge's decision holds.

U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost thinks Ohio is serious about following legal lethal injection policies and is allowing Wiles' execution to go ahead. He was convicted of stabbing a 15-year old Mark Klima to death during a farmhouse burglary in 1985.

The knife in the boy's back had been used to cut a birthday cake just the day before.

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(AP) A federal judge is allowing Ohio's next scheduled execution to proceed, concluding that the state is serious about following its lethal injection procedures. The decision Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost paves the way for the April 18 execution of Mark Wiles for stabbing a 15-year-old boy to death during a farmhouse burglary in 1985.

Frost had previously criticized the state for deviations from its policy, saying even minor changes called into question the state's ability to carry out executions correctly.

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A death row inmate from Portage County is up for a parole board hearing next week.

Attorneys for Mark Wiles will make their request for clemency next Thursday, three days after Wiles turns 49.

He's been on death row for 26 years - that's 11 more than his victim was ever alive. Wiles was convicted of stabbing to death 15 year old Mark Klima of Rootstown in 1985.

Wiles is scheduled to die by lethal injection next month, but that's unlikely to happen since executions have been halted while a special panel looks into Ohio's execution procedures and protocol.