BATON ROUGE - A federal judge presiding over Todd Wessinger's plea for a new sentencing date decided Tuesday to side with an appeals court and denied him the possibility of leniency, paving the way for his execution. 

On Nov. 19, 1995, Todd Kelvin Wessinger went into the kitchen of Calendar's Restaurant on Perkins Road and killed manager Stephanie Guzzardo, 27, David Breakwell, 46, and shot a 19-year-old.

Wessinger was 27 at the time of the shooting. He had recently been fired from the restaurant and management would not re-hire him when he asked for his job back. 

He was found guilty of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory life sentence with the possibility of execution if the district attorney's office deems it applicable. Wessinger has been on death row at Angola since his conviction. 

For the past 30 years, Wessinger has made several appeals to have his death sentence overturned. Most recently, he was denied a request to be taken off death row by the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in August.

On Tuesday, U.S. Middle District of Louisiana Judge John deGravelles sided with the appeals court, officially ending Wessinger's attempt to avoid the death penalty. 

"There will be no clemency for Todd Wessinger. We stand firmly with the victims and their families," Governor Jeff Landry posted on social media Tuesday. 

District Attorney Hillar Moore told WBRZ he intends to sign a death warrant for Wessinger.