The South Carolina Supreme Court set an execution date of April 15 for a man convicted of killing two Spartanburg movie theater employees during a January 1991 robbery.

Richard Longworth has exhausted his state and federal appeals, according to the state attorney general’s office.

Longworth and a co-defendant, David Rocheville, decided to go to the movie theater in Spartanburg where they used to work and rob it in January 1991, prosecutors said.

The two watched part of a movie, then started toward the lobby. They met usher Alex Hopps on the way and dragged him outside, investigators said.

Longworth pinned Hopps against a bar while Rocheville shot him in the head, according to testimony.

The two were locked out of the theater but persuaded employee James Greene to let them back inside. They then ordered Greene to empty the safe and forced him into their van, prosecutors said.

After driving away from the theater, Longworth stopped and told Greene to walk out, get on his knees and look forward. Rocheville then shot him in the head.

Rocheville was executed in December 1999, but in an interview before his death blamed Longworth for forcing him into the robbery and said his crime that night was being a “coward.”