JACKSON (AP) — Dale Leo Bishop is set to be executed July 23 for beating a man to death with a claw hammer in 1998, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

The date was set one day after Bishop’s attorneys claimed that his last lawyer — the former director of a state agency that represents death row inmates — sabotaged the case by suppressing evidence and firing investigators who worked on the inmate’s appeal.

The Supreme Court’s order setting the execution date mentioned in a footnote that an appeal motion is pending before the court.