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    Panel to consider clemency for Georgia death row inmate

    The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles has set a clemency hearing for a death row inmate scheduled to be put to death next week.

    The board announced Monday that it will hear from advocates for Kenneth Fults on April 11. Fults was convicted of killing Cathy Bounds, who was shot five times in the back of her head. Prosecutors say Fults killed Bounds after breaking into her house during a weeklong crime spree in January 1996.

    Fults is scheduled to die April 12 by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson.

    The parole board is the only entity in Georgia that can commute a death sentence.

    Georgia has already executed three other inmates this year.

    http://www.wsbtv.com/news/georgia/pa...mate/196815744
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    Fults Execution Media Advisory - Inmate’s Last Meal

    Condemned murderer Kenneth E. Fults is scheduled for execution by lethal injection at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. Fults was sentenced to death in 1997 for the murder of Cathy Bounds.

    Media witnesses for the execution are: Rhonda Cook, Atlanta Journal Constitution; Kate Brumback, Associated Press; Thomas Hoefer, Griffin Daily News; and Brittany Collins, WGXA.

    Fults requested a last meal consisting of a t-bone steak, baked potato with butter, brown rice, and apple juice.

    There have been 62 men and one woman executed in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. If executed, Fults will be the 41st inmate put to death by lethal injection. There are presently 65 men under death sentence in Georgia.
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    Georgia inmate asks high court to consider juror racial bias

    ATLANTA — A Georgia death row inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider his claim that his death sentence is unconstitutional because one of the jurors was motivated by racial prejudice.

    Kenneth Fults is to be executed Tuesday for the 1996 killing of Cathy Bounds.

    An investigator working for Fults’ lawyers in 2005 interviewed Thomas Buffington about his experience as a juror in Fults’ sentencing trial. Buffington, who has since died, said in a sworn statement that he knew he “would vote for the death penalty because that’s what that (N-word) deserved.”

    State and federal courts have rejected this challenge, largely on procedural grounds. The U.S. Supreme Court in October declined to take it up on appeal.

    Fults’ lawyers on Friday asked the highest court directly to consider the matter.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...dde_story.html
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    PRESS ADVISORY

    Execution Date Set for Kenneth Earl Fults, Convicted of Murder

    March 23, 2016

    An execution date for Kenneth Earl Fults has been set for April 12, 2016. Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens offers the following information in the case against Kenneth Earl Fults for the 1996 murder of nineteen year old Cathy Bounds.

    Scheduled Execution

    Kenneth Earl Fults’ direct appeal proceedings and his state and federal habeas corpus proceedings have been concluded. Accordingly, on March 23, 2016, the Superior Court of Spalding County issued an order setting a seven-day period of time during which the execution of Kenneth Earl Fults may take place. The period of time ordered by the Superior Court will last from noon on April 12, 2016, to noon on April 19, 2016. The execution has been set for Tuesday evening, April 12, 2016.

    Fults’ Crime (January 30, 1996)

    The Georgia Supreme Court summarized the facts of the crime as follows:

    The evidence adduced at Fults’ sentencing trial showed that he carried out a week-long crime spree which was centered, at least in part, upon his desire to murder a man who was engaged in a relationship with his former girlfriend. Fults first committed two burglaries, obtaining several handguns. After a failed attempt at murdering his former girlfriend’s new boyfriend with one of the stolen handguns, Fults then burglarized the home of his next-door neighbors. After the male neighbor left for work, Fults forced his way through the front door wearing gloves and a hat pulled down over his face. Fults confronted the female occupant of the home, Cathy Bounds, brandishing a .22 caliber handgun he had stolen during one of the burglaries. Ms. Bounds begged for her life and offered Fults the rings on her fingers. Fults turned Ms. Bounds around toward the bedroom, either taped or forced her to tape her eyes closed by wrapping over six feet of electrical tape around her head, forced her into the bedroom, placed her face-down on her bed, placed a pillow over her head, and shot her five times in the back of the head.

    A search of Fults’ trailer home revealed a boastful letter he had written in gang code in which he described the murder with some alterations of detail. Upon being confronted with this letter by a law enforcement officer, Fults confessed to killing Ms. Bounds but maintained that he had shot her by accident while in a dream-like state. The murder weapon was recovered from under Fults’ trailer home, and .22 caliber shell casings shown to have been fired by the murder weapon as well as items from the earlier burglaries were found behind Fults’ trailer home.

    Fults v. State, 274 Ga. 82, 83 (2001).

    The Trial and Direct Appeal (1997-2002)

    On May 19, 1997, Fults pled guilty to malice murder, felony murder, burglary, kidnapping with bodily injury and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. On May 22, 1997, following a sentencing trial, a jury recommended a death sentence for Fults. The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed Fults’ convictions and death sentence on June 11, 2001. Fults v. State, 274 Ga. 82 (2001). The United States Supreme Court denied Fults’ request to appeal on March 4, 2002. Fults v. Georgia, 535 U.S. 908 (2002), rehearing denied, Fults v. Georgia, 535 U.S. 1043 (2002).

    State Habeas Corpus Proceedings (2002-2009)

    Fults filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Superior Court of Butts County, Georgia on November 26, 2002. An evidentiary hearing was held on March 20-22, 2007. On December 28, 2007, the state habeas corpus court entered an order denying Fults state habeas relief. The Georgia Supreme Court denied Fults’ appeal on April 28, 2009. The United States Supreme Court denied Fults’ request to appeal on October 5, 2009. Fults v. Upton, 558 U.S. 906 (2009).

    Federal Habeas Corpus Proceedings (2009-2015)

    Fults filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on July 31, 2009. On March 14, 2012, the district court denied Fults federal habeas relief. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s denial of relief on August 26, 2014. Fults v. GDCP Warden, 764 F.3d 1311 (11th Cir. 2014). The United States Supreme Court denied Fults’ request to appeal on October 5, 2015. Fults v. Chatman, 136 S. Ct. 56 (2015).

    http://law.ga.gov/press-releases/201...nvicted-murder

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    I've got a bad feeling he might get a stay over the racist juror nonsense

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    Pro-tip: Never ever allow yourself to be interviewed by the defense or the media about a case if you are a juror or a wit. They will twist what you say.

    If you ever attend a lineup, dont write "I think it is number X". Just write down on the sheet they give you "X". Do not qualify your answers. Otherwise the defense will use it to trip you up if you go to court.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clarkaaron54 View Post
    I've got a bad feeling he might get a stay over the racist juror nonsense
    I've been thinking the exact same thing today.

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    And what are they going to do with the alleged statement? It was given to a defense investigator 11 years ago and I assume the investigator wrote a report and swore in affidavit that it was true. So what? It is still hearsay and the juror is dead. So, how is this admissible? How does this make him racist? Sure, racial epithets can be evidence of racism but not always. Did the juror act in a bias manner when judging the defendant? How? What is the defense arguing? But for this one alleged racist juror, the jury would have hung or come back not guilty? I dont think so! Seems like the defendant is guilty as hell and does deserve the DP. The woman sure didnt need to be shot 5 times.

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    Ranger he didn't know what he was doing. He was sleep walking. And he doesn't have any memory of this event.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Yes, I read the opinion. I'm talking about the juror. This is a lame last ditch defense effort to derail the sentence from being carried out.

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