HARRISBURG, Pa. — An inmate sentenced to die for strangling his cellmate has dropped all appeals, making him likely to become the first person to be executed by the federal government since 1963.

David Paul Hammer, 41, a con man so violent that Oklahoma built him a special isolation cell with steel doors and shatterproof glass, is scheduled to die by injection on Nov. 15.

The date was set by a federal judge in Williamsport, Pa., on Thursday after a judicial panel granted his request to drop an appeal of his death sentence.

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