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He asked to expedite its implementation. And Wednesday is expected to make his wish come true.
Death by lethal injection of Hispanic Daniel Lopez is marked for six in the evening local time, 23:00 GMT prison in Huntsville, Texas.
The 27 years is technically considered a volunteer of the death penalty, as is known to those facing the court grants a formal request to waive further appeals.
That concession was granted to Lopez in federal court.
After being sentenced to death in 2010, Lopez asked repeatedly that the implementation process, which sometimes lasts for decades to accelerate.
"Do not you see the point to wait 20 years to finally decide to execute me," he said in a recent interview.
But despite the clear will expressed by Lopez still trying to save his lawyers arguing that the young man has a history of mental illness and suicide attempts.
His defense team will this Wednesday his fight to the US Supreme Court for execution is delayed, according to reports in the US press.
Convicted of killing a policeman
Lopez was convicted of killing police in 2009 Stuart Alexander, 47, an officer with two decades of experience.
Alexander's death occurred after a police chase that began after another officer tried to stop Lopez when he jumped with his vehicle a stop signal in a neighborhood of the city of Corpus Christi.
After a brawl with the agent, Lopez fled at high speed and reached a point in the road where Stuart Alexander had just placed devices to puncture tires in order to stop it.
Lopez said he tried to dodge and hit the agent devices.
According to records of the case, during the escape he contacted his mother, Maria Teresa Quintero, who was quoted as saying "I think I ran over someone, I could not see because I had been released pepper spray".
Lopez was intercepted shortly afterwards after being shot in the arm, neck and back as it passes through another roadblock.
The young man said after he fled when police tried to stop him first because he had drugs in his vehicle. Police found the car later in packages of cocaine twelve o'clock.
Court records cited by several media said Lopez was on probation after being convicted of having sex with minors.
"He's trying to commit suicide"
Lopez's lawyers questioned the decision of the federal court found the young mentally competent to waive his appeals.
They also note that he should not have been sentenced to death, because he did not intend to kill Alexander.
If the execution takes place, Daniel Lopez will be the tenth prisoner executed this year in Texas and the 19th nationwide.
But his main argument is that Lopez has a history of mental illness and suicide attempts and is using his sentence to bring to reality his long desire to end his life.
"It is clear that Lopez has allowed to use the legal system in another attempt to take his life," said attorney David Dow.
The prosecutors in the case, however, claim that Lopez was examined by a psychologist and testified before a federal court found no mental problems.
According to the charity The Forgiveness Forgiveness Foundation or Foundation, an anti-Christian organization to the death penalty, Lopez left his education with about 15 years.
The foundation says on its website that "throughout his childhood Daniel was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder."
Another defense lawyer Lopez, Luis Garcia, said his client was far from being the monster described during the trial against him.
Garcia said Lopez came "from a broken home and twice tried to commit suicide as a teenager, after trying to cut his veins and one with an overdose."
If the execution takes place, Daniel Lopez will be the tenth prisoner executed this year in Texas and the 19th nationwide.
50% of the 2015 executions took place in Texas.
The state also plans to run on Thursday Tracy Beatty, 54, convicted of murdering his mother in 2003.
At least seven other prisoners on death row in Texas have execution dates in the coming months.
Source: BBC
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