Convicted killer Alva Campbell is arranged for execution in Ohio on Nov. 15, 2017 (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction through Associated Press)

Lawyers for a death row prisoner are asking Ohio Gov. John Kasich to spare their customer’ s life, arguing that the 69-year-old killer of an 18-year-old male remains in such bad health that he need to be spared.

Alva Campbell utilizes a walker, depends on an external colostomy bag, needs 4 breathing treatments a day for asthma and emphysema and might have lung cancer, the legal representatives stated in a filing with the Ohio Parole Board.

Campbell was likewise the item of a violent, sexually violent and inefficient youth and continued to suffer abuse after he was positioned in foster houses, the lawyers stated.

“Alva’s advancement suffered, and the possibilities of him ending up being an accountable adult withered,” composed lead lawyer David Stebbins, a federal public protector.

“Alva’s advancement suffered, and the possibilities of him ending up being an accountable adult withered.”

– David Stebbins, federal public protector

Campbell’s lawyers argue his case resembles that of Joseph Murphy, spared by Kasich in 2011 ahead of his scheduled execution for slashing a female’s throat throughout a burglary.

The parole board advised grace for Murphy, noting his youth maturing in West Virginia where he was beaten, starved and sexually mistreated.

The board prepared to hear arguments for and versus clemency on Thursday. A choice is anticipated in about a week. Kasich has the last word. Campbell is arranged for execution Nov. 15.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, will choose the fate of death row prisoner Alva Campbell. Kasich is seen in Columbus, Ohio, July 21, 2015. (Getty Images)

Campbell remained in a wheelchair feigning paralysis when he subdued a Franklin County constable’s deputy en route to a court hearing on April 2, 1997, on numerous heist charges, records reveal.

Campbell took the deputy’s weapon, carjacked 18-year-old Charles Dials and owned around with him for numerous hours prior to shooting him two times in the head as Dials bent in the footwell of his own truck, inning accordance with court records.

Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien opposes grace for Campbell, who he calls “a profession crook from youth to aging.”

O’Brien stated it was paradoxical Campbell was raising health issues to prevent execution considered that he fabricated paralysis to perform his criminal offense.

“As judgment day nears he once again turn to illness as a need to make it possible for an escape from his capital sentence– and ought to not be allowed to do so,” O’Brien stated in a Tuesday filing with the parole board.

Campbell served 20 years in jail for a deadly bar shooting in Cleveland in 1972. He was detained in 1997 after a series of heists in Columbus.

“It is simple to blame departed moms and dads or a youth for errors and even criminal activities– however not for 2 different murders dedicated years apart,” O’Brien stated.

The Associated Press added to this story.