The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to uphold a U.S. Sixth Circuit Court ruling in Danny Lee Hill’s case.

Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said he is pleased with the decision and will ask the Ohio Supreme Court to set an execution date for the Warren native.

The full U.S. Sixth Circuit Court had denied the death row inmate’s bid to be saved from execution based upon intellectual disability claims.

Hill was convicted in 1986 by a three-judge panel for the aggravated murder of 12-year-old Raymond Fife of Warren, who was brutally slain after being sexually assaulted in September 1985 on a path near a Palmyra Road SW grocery store. Hill was sentenced to death.

The death row inmate has spent almost three decades in various courts trying to stay away from the Ohio death chamber.

This is a developing story.