A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the rejection of an Alabama Death Row inmate’s claim of innocence and denied a stay of execution — two days before Jamie Mills is set to die.

Mills, 50, has been fighting his execution in two separate federal lawsuits: One challenging the state’s lethal injection protocol and another claiming his former wife lied when testifying against him.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found “no reasonable jurist could conclude that the district court abused its discretion” when it denied a motion for a new trial from Mills.

Mills claimed his ex-wife, JoAnn Mills, perjured herself by denying that she testified against him in exchange for leniency.

Jamie Mills and JoAnn Mills were convicted in the June 2004 beating deaths of Floyd and Vera Hill. The Hills were beaten with a machete, a ball-peen hammer, and a tire iron at their Marion County home before, prosecutors said, the Millses stole cash and prescription medication.

The jury recommended by 11 to 1 that Mills be executed for the slayings.

Jamie Mills also asked for a stay of execution to prohibit the state from doing several things: putting him on the gurney while his lawsuits are still pending, restraining him on the gurney “without legitimate reason,” not letting his lawyers in the execution chamber while his intravenous lines are set up, and denying his lawyers access to a phone line while inside the prison.

The 11th Circuit denied the stay after ruling Jamie Mills “has not established that he is substantially likely to succeed on the merits of his appeal or that the equities favor a stay of execution at this late stage…”

Jamie Mills is scheduled to die Thursday via lethal injection for the 2004 murders of an elderly couple in Marion County.

It remains unclear whether he plans to appeal the federal appeals court rulings to the U.S. Supreme Court.