BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Corrections has placed a deposit for a lethal dose of a drug that will be used in the execution of convicted killer Todd Wessinger, court filings note. 

A declaration from DOC Secretary Gary Wescott dated Wednesday says that the state has secured a supplier for 15 grams of pentobarbital to execute Wessinger, who was convicted of killing two restaurant employees during a 1995 robbery in Baton Rouge.

He has been on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola since his conviction.

Westcott notes in the filings that the state will receive the pentobarbital within 48 hours of an official request for Wessinger's execution, which has yet to be made.