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| Georgia executes man who killed woman during 1996 burglary |
| By cbsnews.com |
| Published: 04/13/2016 |
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JACKSON, Ga. --A man convicted of the 1996 killing of a woman during a week-long crime spree on Tuesday become the fourth person put to death in Georgia this year. Kenneth Fults received an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson and was pronounced dead at 7:37 p.m., Warden Bruce Chatman announced. The 47-year-old inmate had pleaded guilty to killing a neighbor, 19-year-old Cathy Bounds, during a burglary in January 1996, and a jury sentenced him to death. Fults' attorneys had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider arguments that a juror who imposed the sentence was motivated by racial bias. The request presented to Justice Clarence Thomas on behalf of the court was denied, the court said in a statement earlier Tuesday without explaining the decision. Read More. |
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