COLUMBUS, Ohio - The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing the consider the case of a man sent to Ohio's Death Row after being convicted of killing a couple in their Warren home thirty-three years ago.

The high court denied what's known as a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by 52-year-old Charles Lorraine.

Lorraine has been arguing that his death sentence should have been vacated because the Supreme Court ruled in another case that a jury, and not a judge should have to rule on each fact needed to impose the death penalty.

Thirty-two years after a husband and wife were murdered in their Warren home, the Ohio Supreme Court has set an execution date for the man convicted of the killings.

An execution date of March 15, 2023, has been set for Lorraine who was convicted of the 1986 stabbing deaths of 80-year-old Doris Montgomery and her 77-year-old husband Raymond.

Lorraine was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of burglary, two counts of complicity to commit burglary, and one count of robbery.

According to court records, the Montgomery had been friendly and generous to Lorraine in the past, and they had hired him to perform tasks around their home.

On May 6, 1986, investigators say Lorraine got Raymond Montgomery to go to the second floor of his home on the pretense that he had forgotten an item.

Upon entering the room, Lorraine, while wearing rubber gloves, stabbed Montgomery five times with a butcher knife.

After killing the husband, police say Lorraine returned to the first floor, where Mrs. Montgomery was confined to bed and stabbed her nine times.

He then burglarized the home and went to a bar and bought drinks with the stolen money, according to court documents.

Investigators say Lorraine and a friend returned to the Montgomery home to steal again.