KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The attorney for an out-of-work truck driver said his client will enter a guilty plea to killing two people and wounding six others in a Tennessee church.

Jim D. Adkisson, 58, has a court hearing in Knoxville today.

His public defender, Mark Stephens, had planned an insanity defense. Adkisson is scheduled to stand trial next month.

But Stephens said last week Adkisson decided to enter a plea deal to all counts in exchange for a life sentence without parole.

Police say Adkisson said in a letter he attacked the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church because he hated liberals and gays.

The shooter fired three deadly blasts into the congregation July 27 during a children's musical performance before members wrestled him to the ground.

By The Associated Press