A Hurricane Katrina evacuee is set to be executed Feb. 12 for fatally shooting two men in Oklahoma City in 2006.

Kendrick Antonio Simpson , 45, was sentenced to death in 2007 for both murders. He had relocated to Oklahoma in September 2005 after the hurricane hit New Orleans.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals scheduled the execution in an order on Wednesday, Nov. 19. The appellate judges acted after being notified that convicted murderer Tremane Wood had been granted clemency .

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