INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says he won't appeal a ruling that a man sentenced to death for killing a Franklin College student in 1997 is incompetent to be executed because such an appeal likely would not succeed.
Zoeller announced Tuesday that Michael Dean Overstreet will remain a condemned prisoner under a sentence of death, but the sentence will not be carried out until and unless his mental competency is restored.
St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Jane Woodward Miller ruled last month that Overstreet was delusional and incompetent.
Overstreet was sentenced to death in 2000 after being convicted of abducting, raping and killing 18-year-old Kelly Eckart of Boggstown, about 15 miles southwest of Indianapolis. She was found strangled in a ravine and had been shot in the head.
