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| BACK ON DEATH ROW: Appeal rejected for man who killed sister-in-law |
| By canoe.com- Kate Brumback |
| Published: 04/04/2018 |
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ATLANTA — A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the arguments of a Georgia death row inmate whose scheduled execution was temporarily halted last year by the U.S. Supreme Court. Keith Leroy Tharpe, known as “Bo,” had been scheduled to die on Sept. 26, but the Supreme Court stepped in and granted him a temporary stay hours after the appointed execution time had passed. The justices voted 6-3 in January to order the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to take up his case, giving him another chance to raise claims of racial bias on his jury. Tharpe, 59, was convicted of murder and two counts of kidnapping in the September 1990 slaying of his sister-in-law, Jacquelyn Freeman. His appeal arises from interviews his legal team did in 1998 with Barney Gattie, a white juror. Gattie freely used racial slurs and said his study of the Bible had led him to question “if black people even have souls,” according to court filings. Gattie signed an affidavit, though he later testified that he voted to sentence Tharpe to death because of the evidence against him. Read More. |
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Keith Leroy Tharpe should not be forgiven because he took one innocent life intentionally and destroyed the other one. His consistent criminal life should not be ignored. I am very happy to visit writemypaper4me source to write my essays on time because they are continuously rejecting his appeals.
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