A clemency petition is his last hope. The Missouri inmate is unhappy with it.

ST. LOUIS — As Missouri Governor Mike Parson considers a pardon request for the convicted inmate David Hosierat least one person is dissatisfied with the petition: Hosier himself.

The 69-year-old is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for the 2009 deaths of a Jefferson City couple, Angela and Rodney Gilpin. Randy Dampf, a Jefferson City police officer at the time of the killings and now an investigator for the district attorney’s office, said Hosier was in a romantic relationship with Angela Gilpin and was angry at her for breaking it off.

The pardon is not public, but Hosier said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that it focused too much on the trauma of his father, an Indiana State Police sergeant who was killed in the line of duty when Hosier was 16; and not enough about the lack of fingerprints, DNA or eyewitnesses linking him to the Gilpins’ deaths. Glen Hosier was shot and killed by a murder suspect in 1971 after entering a home.

“They did the exact opposite of what I wanted them to do,” Hosier said of his attorneys’ approach to the clemency request. ‘I told them I didn’t want the ‘boo hoo, woe is me’. All those things happened 53 years ago, okay? It has nothing to do with why I’m here now.”

Hosier’s fate rests solely with Parson, a Republican and former sheriff who has overseen 10 executions since taking office in 2018. One of Hosier’s attorneys, federal public defender Larry Komp, said Monday that there would be no last-minute appeal the court is pending.

The governor’s office did not return a message seeking comment.

Hosier sometimes squeaked when he spoke and his voice was weak. In mid-May he was taken from prison to a hospital – a rare move for death row inmates. He was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. He said he is taking medication but still feels bad.

Hosier spent four years on active duty in the Navy and later worked as a firefighter and EMT in Jefferson City. He acknowledged his 2009 affair with Angela Gilpin and that she ended it and reconciled with her husband. In September 2009, they were shot dead at the doorway of their apartment.

Detective Jason Miles said that in the days before the murders, Hosier made numerous comments to other people threatening to harm Angela Gilpin.

After the shootings, police found an application for a protective order in Angela Gilpin’s purse, and another document in which she expressed fear that Hosier would shoot her and her husband.

Hosier was an immediate suspect, but police were unable to find him. They used cell data to track him to Oklahoma. A chase ensued when an Oklahoma officer tried to stop Hosier’s car. When he got out, he told officers, “Shoot me and end it,” court records show.

Officers found 15 guns, a bulletproof vest, 400 rounds of ammunition and other weapons in Hosier’s car. The weapons included a submachine gun made from a kit that investigators say was used in the killings, although tests on it were inconclusive.

A note was found on the front seat of Hosier’s car. “If you go with someone, don’t lie to them,” it read in part. “Be honest with them if something is wrong. If you don’t, this could happen to you!!”

Hosier said he didn’t run to Oklahoma, but simply took a long drive to clear his head. He had the guns because he likes hunting, he said. He couldn’t remember there being a note in the car.

The Missouri Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 2019.

The execution would be the second in Missouri this year. Brian Dorsey was executed in April for killing his cousin and her husband in 2006.