<p>A man who tied up a topless dancer, raped her and left her dead body next to a trash pile in 1975 is scheduled to be executed by injection Tuesday night.</p><p>James Willie Brown, 55, had a few last-minute appeals pending, but one of them was denied Tuesday afternoon by U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester.</p><p>Browns attorneys had argued that his sentence should be changed to life imprisonment without parole because a witness lied at his trial. The witness, Anita Jean Tucker, testified that Brown may have been faking his mental illness, but she later recanted.</p><p>Forrester denied those claims in his order.</p><p>Petitioner has not shown by clear and convincing evidence that Ms. Tucker provided false testimony, ... the state of Georgia was aware that Ms. Tucker committed perjury, or Ms. Tuckers allegedly false testimony was material, Forrester wrote.</p><p>Browns attorneys also appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.</p><p>Brown raped Brenda Sue Watson while she suffocated on her panties. They had been forced so far down her throat that they werent found until the autopsy.</p><p>Brown and Watson ate a takeout dinner of steak and potatoes at the Mark Inn Lounge in Gwinnett County on May 12, 1975.</p><p>They danced and drank for a few hours, and then they left together shortly before midnight.</p><p>Watsons body was found the next day in the woods.</p><p>She had been tied up with nylon cord and was mostly naked.</p><p>Browns lawyers argued he is a paranoid schizophrenic who should have never been sentenced to death. They say the death penalty was based on the lies of a witness who has since come clean.</p><p>The state presented false testimony to get a sentence of death, and in the United States, that shouldnt happen, said defense attorney Tom Dunn on Tuesday.</p><p>But even if Brown is mentally ill, he should still be put to death, said Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter, who prosecuted Brown at his second trial in 1990.</p><p>Hes probably mentally ill, but hes not mentally ill to the extent that would legally excuse him for the responsibility for his act.</p><p>In preparation for his execution, Brown requested a last meal of a foot-long chili dog with everything, French fries, a dill pickle, strawberry ice cream and a soft drink.</p><p>Brown would be the 33rd man executed in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1973. Hell be the 11th inmate to be executed by injection.</p>
