An Oklahoma man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter is scheduled for execution, according to multiple reports. The case stems from a fire at the victims’ home nearly 20 years ago. Prosecutors said the man set the home on fire, resulting in the deaths of his ex-girlfriend and the couple’s child at the age of seven months. He was later convicted for the killings and has exhausted the legal process available to him, leading to an execution date. The reports describe the matter as one of the most severe charges in the state’s death-penalty system, focusing on the long-running timeline between the 2000-era incident and the current efforts to carry out the sentence. The Independent and ABC News both frame the story around the same conviction, the same victims, and the fact that the execution is pending after decades of litigation.