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| Lawyers for a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week are asking the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to spare his life |
| By therepublic.com- Kate Brumback |
| Published: 04/11/2016 |
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ATLANTA — A Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week was neglected and mistreated as a child and has substantial intellectual impairments that have affected his ability to act appropriately, his lawyers wrote in a clemency petition. Kenneth Fults, 47, is set to be put to death Tuesday by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. His lawyers and supporters planned to ask the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to spare his life during a clemency hearing Monday. The parole board is the only entity that can commute a death sentence in Georgia. Fults pleaded guilty to killing 19-year-old Cathy Bounds in January 1996, and a jury sentenced him to die. In a clemency petition submitted to the parole board, Fults' lawyers detail a childhood characterized by neglect and abuse at the hands of heavy drinking family members and his mother's string of violent boyfriends. Read More. |
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