News Georgia to execute man who killed woman during burglary

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Kenneth Fults was scheduled to die by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Jackson. The 47-year-old inmate pleaded guilty in 1997 to killing his neighbor, 19-year-old Cathy Bounds, and a jury sentenced him to death.

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The State Board of Pardons and Paroles held a clemency hearing for Fults on Monday but declined to grant him clemency. The parole board is the only entity that can commute a death sentence in Georgia.

Prosecutors have said Fults killed Bounds during a weeklong crime spree that started when he stole two guns during burglaries. After trying unsuccessfully to kill his former girlfriend's new boyfriend with one of the stolen guns, Fults broke into the trailer next to his, where Bounds lived with her boyfriend.

Bounds, who was home alone, pleaded for her life and offered him the rings on her fingers, but Fults forced her into the bedroom, wrapped electrical tape around her head, put her face-down on the bed, put a pillow over her head and shot her five times in the back of the head, prosecutors said.

Fults' lawyers said in a clemency petition that their client had an extremely tough childhood characterized by abuse and neglect and an intellectual disability that keeps him from acting appropriately.

"Mr. Fults, the man, committed a terrible, tragic act when he killed Cathy Bounds," they wrote. "But before the man existed, there was an innocent, vulnerable child in his place. And that child, Kenny, fell through the cracks."

They also pointed out what they said were flaws in his sentencing trial, including a juror they said was motivated by racial bias and a defense attorney who fell asleep and failed to provide an adequate defense.

In their filing with the Supreme Court, Fults' lawyers argue his death sentence is unconstitutional because one of the jurors who imposed it was motivated by racial prejudice. During jury selection for Fults' trial in 1997, juror Thomas Buffington, who was white, told the judge and lawyers on both sides that he felt no racial prejudice.

An investigator working with Fults' lawyers eight years later spoke to Buffington about his jury service. Buffington, who was 79 at the time of the interview and has since died, twice used a racial slur when talking about Fults, who is black.

"Once he pled guilty, I knew I would vote for the death penalty because that's what that (N-word) deserved," Buffington said, according to the signed, April 12, 2005 affidavit in the court record. State and federal courts have consistently declined to consider Fults' argument that his sentence was unfairly imposed because of racial bias, mostly for procedural reasons that have to do with when the argument was first raised. The U.S. Supreme court in October declined to take up the issue on appeal.

Now Fults' lawyers are asking the high court to take the case directly, not as an appeal. They argue it is very similar to another case the court agreed last week to hear. The state argued in a court filing Monday that this case does not demonstrate the "exceptional circumstances" necessary for the Supreme Court to take it on directly. Fults would be the fourth man executed in Georgia this year. Another man, Daniel Lucas, is scheduled to die April 27.

Georgia to execute man who killed woman during burglary

[Horatio Caine]

[seeandsee]

did't read, too longgggggg

[nico-t]

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[nico-t]

This is what all the families of all the victims of gruesome deaths he tries to make pennies of have on the caskets against Brasshat the Graverobber:

[JFK]

Originally Posted by nico-t

This is what all the families of all the victims of gruesome deaths he tries to make pennies of have on the caskets against Brasshat the Graverobber:

[Relic]

Nice news clipping hahahahahaha

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Death news copy pasted!

[L-Pink]

[SBJ]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

more like Dropping dimes from all these copy/paste sig views

[Mr Pheer]

He admitted doing it. I dont see the problem.

Oh look at the time, he's a corpse now.

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by Mr Pheer

Oh look at the time, he's a corpse now.

[Horatio Caine]

RIP bratha You be missed




































Nooooot.

[davidclickpapa]

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[pimpmaster9000]

there is a fat coffin market in the USA

[Penny24Seven]

How come you do not post your thoughts? You just post the story. Well you are a worthless fucking dumbass fuck. Maybe if you had something to say about it people could give a real comment but since you do this to make 80 bucks a month to buy yourself 5 crack rocks. Yeah you get the 5th one free when you get 4 I know you told me this.
Fucking black cracker

[Sednub997]

a lots of critics about copy past thread and you never stop