A Kansas judge has refused to recuse himself from the death penalty case of a white supremacist charged in the killings of three people at two Jewish sites in Kansas.

Johnson County Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan said Friday there were no grounds for him to step down.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. argued that Ryan was obstructing justice by not ruling quickly on motions or allowing him a computer with online access.

Ryan said he would discuss later in the hearing Miller’s argument that there was a “compelling necessity” for last year’s killings in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.

The prosecution says the compelling necessity defense shouldn’t be allowed, arguing in a motion that there’s “no relationship whatsoever between these victims and the worldwide conspiracy” that Miller alleges.

(AP)