Attorneys for Michael Dean Overstreet and the state have filed their final arguments on whether Overstreet is competent to be executed.
St. Joseph County Judge Jane Woodward Miller presided over a four-day hearing where she heard testimony from doctors and prison mental health workers.
The Daily Journal reports Miller has until Dec. 5 to decide whether Overstreet is competent to be executed.
Overstreet received the death sentence in 2000 after being convicted of raping and killing 18-year-old Kelly Eckart of Boggstown in September 1997. The Franklin College student was found strangled in a ravine in Brown County with a bullet wound in her head.
