Ross, who would be Connecticut's first executed inmate in more than 40 years, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 2 a.m. Saturday.

Earlier, his father's legal efforts to block his execution were turned down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ross has rejected all efforts to postpone his execution, saying he wants to die. But his father has been trying to stop the state from going ahead with the execution.

Ross has admitted killing eight women in at least five states, including Connecticut and New York.

Ross, 45, was sentenced to death for killing four women in eastern Connecticut in the 1980s.

Those four victims were Robin Stavinsky, April Brunais, Wendy Baribeault and Leslie Shelley.

All his victims were 14 to 25 years old when Ross strangled them to death. He admitting raping all but one of them first.

It is believed that his first murder victim was Dzong Tu, a Vietnam-born graduate student in economics at Cornell University in New York. Her death followed a string of rapes on campus in the Spring of 1981. Ross also was a student at the university.

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