John Spirko, who is scheduled to die by injection Nov. 15, had asked that the board take into account a recent a lie detector test from a house painter who implicated another man in the 1982 stabbing of Betty Jane Mottinger, 48, of Elgin.

The house painter, John Willier, last week repeated his 1997 statement accusing his former boss on a painting crew as the real killer and passed a lie-detector test paid for by Northwestern University law professors who investigate claims of wrongful capital convictions, defense attorney Thomas Hill said. The former boss is in a Louisiana prison.

Mottinger's body was found in a paint-splattered tarp.

Spirko, 59, has said he is innocent of the killing. Authorities say he described details only someone at the scene of the crime could know.

The parole board recommended Oct. 19 that Taft deny clemency after a rare second hearing on Spirko's case. The vote in both recommendations was 6-3.