BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has denied a request from a death row inmate to avoid execution.

According to Attorney General Liz Murrill, the inmate, Darrell Robinson, and his lawyers applied for a rehearing on Thursday, September 4. Court documents reveal that the application for the rehearing was denied.

Murrill issued a statement on the denial, saying:

"Darrell Robinson brutally murdered four people including a 10-month-old baby in Rapides Parish 29 years ago. It is long past time for him to have been executed. I intend to see that this happens as expeditiously as possible."

The AG's office says on May 28, 1996, Robinson murdered Bill Lambert, Carol Hooper, Maureen Kelly, and Nicholas Kelly, a 10-month-old baby in Rapides Parish.

Robinson, who had

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