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The Latest: Lawyers ask state high court to halt execution

In this undated file photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections, death row inmate Daniel Anthony Lucas is seen. Lucas, 37, was sentenced to die in 1999 for the killings of Steven Moss, 37, his 11-year-old son Bryan and 15-year-old daughter Kristin, who interrupted a burglary at their home near Macon in central Georgia. Lucas is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at the state prison in Jackson. (Georgia Department of Corrections via AP, File)
In this undated file photo released by the Georgia Department of Corrections, death row inmate Daniel Anthony Lucas is seen. Lucas, 37, was sentenced to die in 1999 for the killings of Steven Moss, 37, his 11-year-old son Bryan and 15-year-old daughter Kristin, who interrupted a burglary at their home near Macon in central Georgia. Lucas is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at the state prison in Jackson. (Georgia Department of Corrections via AP, File)

By Associated Press 2 min read

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) – The Latest on the scheduled execution of a Georgia death row inmate (all times local):

4:05 p.m.

Lawyers for a Georgia inmate facing execution Wednesday for a triple murder are asking the state’s highest court to stop the sentence from being carried out.

Thirty-seven-year-old Daniel Anthony Lucas is to receive an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson.

Lucas was sentenced to death for the April 1998 killings of 37-year-old Steven Moss, his 11-year-old son Bryan and 15-year-old daughter Kristin, who interrupted a burglary at the family’s home near Macon.