"The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied," the document reads.
Jared Touchin, a front man for the Navajo Nation office of the president and vice president, sought clemency from the Trump administration, asking for Mitchell to be given a life sentence instead of the death penalty
. "The Navajo Nation is respectfully requesting a commutation of the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...and the imposition of a life sentence for Mr. Mitchell," Touchin said. "This request honors our religious and traditional beliefs, the Navajo Nation’s long-standing position on the death penalty for Native Americans."
Mitchell is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Last year, Attorney General William Barr ordered the federal government to resume executions, beginning with five men convicted of murdering or raping children and the elderly. They are the first federal punishments of death carried out since 2003.