A convicted killer, arrested in Lawrenceburg, condemned for an attack in which two of the three murder victims were injected with household cleaner before they were stabbed to death lost an appeal today at the U.S. Supreme Court, moving him closer to execution.

The court refused to hear appeals from Clifford Kimmel of San Antonio and two other Texas death row inmates ? Lionell Rodriguez, a Houston man convicted of a notorious fatal carjacking, and Christopher Coleman, condemned for a triple slaying in Houston.

Rodriguez is scheduled to die by lethal injection on June 20. Neither Kimmel nor Coleman has a pending execution date.

Kimmel and another man, Derek Murphy, were arrested for the April 1999 fatal stabbings of Rachel White and Susan Halverstadt, both 22 and dancers at a topless bar, and Brett Roe, 29. Their bodies were found in a San Antonio apartment.

Kimmel, who had a previous burglary conviction, was arrested about six weeks later for a parole violation and confessed to police. Court records show he and Murphy injected two of their victims with the cleaner Tilex to drug them before they robbed them. Kimmel pleaded guilty to capital murder, and a jury decided he should be executed.

A defense psychiatrist testified at his trial the Kimmel, now 31, had been a heavy user of methamphetamines since he was 13 or 14.

Kimmel’s companion, Murphy, is serving a life prison term for his role in the slayings.

Rodriguez is set to die for the 1990 shooting death of Tracy Gee, a 22-year-old woman gunned down while in her car at a stoplight. He was 19 at the time of the shooting and on parole only three weeks after serving three months of a seven-year sentence for burglary.

The random nature of the slaying put an intense spotlight on Houston street crime at the time. Gee was returning from work and was only a few blocks from home when she was shot in the head while waiting for a light to change. She was pulled from her car and dumped in the street as her attacker drove away, running over her.

Evidence showed Rodriguez, who had a long criminal history, drove around for about two hours in the car, which was splattered with blood and bone fragments, and was sitting in a pool of her blood when he was arrested near his home in Rosenberg in adjacent Fort Bend County.

At his trial, jurors heard his confession where he said he wanted the woman’s car because his was just about out of gasoline.

Rodriguez, now 36, first was convicted in 1991 but the conviction was thrown out because a list of potential jurors improperly was shuffled twice when the law said it could be shuffled only once. He was retried in 1994, convicted again and sentenced a second time to death.

In the other Houston case, Coleman, 35, was condemned for the shooting deaths of three people in December 1995 in what was supposed to be a fake robbery scheme involving a Colombian cocaine peddler.

Herimar Prado Hurtado, Jesus Garcia-Castro and Hurtado’s 3-year-old nephew, Danny Giraldo, were killed when evidence showed Coleman fired 11 times into a car.

According to testimony, Coleman was paid $12,000 to take part in a scheme hatched by Genero Garcia so Garcia wouldn’t have to pay an $80,000 drug debt. Garcia and another man, Derrick Graham, received life prison terms for their role in the plot.

Garcia-Castro’s girlfriend, the dead child’s mother, also was shot in the attack but survived her wounds and identified Coleman as the gunman. Coleman was arrested in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., where he acknowledged being at the shooting site but denied being the gunman.