The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency for a Lumpkin County facing the death penalty Wednesday night.

Steven Frederick Spears, of Lumpkin County, is set for lethal injection at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison.

“In reaching its decision to deny clemency in the case, in addition to information received during yesterday’s meeting, the Parole Board reviewed all case materials from the Board’s comprehensive parole file maintained on Spears,” according to a board news release. “The file includes the history of the life of the condemned inmate, the inmate’s criminal history and the circumstances of the crime that was committed resulting in the death sentence.”

Spears was convicted in 2007 of strangling Sherri Holland six years earlier. According to court documents, the Lumpkin County man crafted multiple methods to kill Holland, including electrocution, bludgeoning and shooting.

Spears was given the death sentence for breaking into Holland’s Dahlonega home Aug. 25, 2001, and choking her.

The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed his conviction in 2015, and Spears did not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.