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Thread: Daniel Anthony Lucas - Georgia Execution - April 27, 2016

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    If it's just overnight then this should go relatively normal speed. SCOTUS shouldn't take too long. The last ungodly delay was Jones we haven't had any crazy delays since this shouldn't take all that long

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    Georgia to carry out its 5th execution of the year this week

    By Kate Brumback
    Savannah Morning News

    ATLANTA — Georgia plans to carry out its fifth execution of the year on Wednesday when a man convicted in the 1998 killings of a trucking company owner and his two children is set to die.

    Daniel Anthony Lucas is scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Georgia executes inmates by injecting the barbiturate pentobarbital.

    Lucas, 37, was sentenced to die in 1999 for the killings of Steven Moss, 37, his 11-year-old son Bryan and 15-year-old daughter Kristin, who interrupted a burglary at their home near Macon in central Georgia.

    Here are some things to know:

    The crime

    Lucas and another man, Brandon Rhode, were searching the Moss home for valuables in April 1998 when Bryan Moss saw them through a front window and entered through a back door armed with a baseball bat, prosecutors have said. They say the two wrestled Bryan to a chair and Lucas shot him in the shoulder. Lucas then led the boy to a bedroom and shot him multiple times, prosecutors have said.

    Rhode met Kristin as she got home from school and forced her to sit on a chair and shot her twice with a pistol, according to court records. Rhode then ambushed Steven Moss when he arrived home, shooting him four times with the same pistol. Lucas later shot the two children again to make sure they were dead, according to the records.

    Moss’ wife, Gerri Ann, discovered the bodies when she returned home from work.

    Co-defendant executed

    Rhode was also convicted in the killings and was put to death in September 2010. His execution was delayed by about a week after he tried to kill himself by slashing his arms and throat just hours before he was initially set to be executed.

    Fast pace of executions

    If Lucas is executed Wednesday, he will be the fifth person put to death in Georgia. That will match the record — set in 1987 and tied last year — for the most executions carried out in a calendar year in the state since the death penalty was reinstated nationwide in 1976. With eight months left in the year, it seems likely the state will set a new record this year.

    His execution would also mean that Georgia has executed more inmates in a 12-month period than at any other time since reinstatement of the death penalty. Georgia has executed seven people in the last 12 months, starting with Kelly Gissendaner on Sept. 30. The only other time the state executed that many people in a 12-month period was when seven inmates were put to death between October 2001 and August 2002.

    Only four states have carried out executions this year for a total of 12. Aside from the four executed in Georgia so far, six inmates have been put to death in Texas and one each in Alabama and Florida.

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    The 3 murders behind what will be Georgia’s 5th execution this year

    By Rhonda Cook
    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    Bryan Moss was a brave 11-year-old boy who armed himself with an aluminum baseball bat to defend his home against the two men ransacking it.

    But they had guns, and soon the boy was dead.

    His 15-year-old sister, Kristin Moss, was just moments behind her brother, getting off the school bus on April 23, 1998. Seconds after walking into her house, Kristin was tied to a chair and, like Bryan, was shot and killed.

    The children’s father, home from work early, was shot and left to die at his daughter’s feet.

    One of the killers, Brandon Rhode, was executed for the three Jones County murders on Sept. 27, 2010.

    Now his partner, Daniel Anthony Lucas, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday.

    If Lucas is put to death, he will be the fifth person Georgia has executed in less than three months. Only two other times has Georgia executed as many as five people in a year: in 2015 and 1987. And there is at least one other man who has exhausted his appeals and is eligible for an execution date this year.

    On Tuesday, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles will hear from Lucas’ advocates who want his sentence commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Then, in the afternoon, Jones County prosecutors and investigators will tell the board why Lucas should die as scheduled on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

    “You see kids getting off the school bus, but you don’t picture them going in the house and getting murdered,” said Maj. Earle Humphries of the Jones County Sheriff’s Office, who investigated the killings and heard Lucas’ confession.

    In contrast to the image of a smiling and seemingly friendly Lucas in the photo on the Department of Corrections website, the then-19-year-old Lucas “was cold and … matter of fact when we interviewed him and he was confessing” to the murders, Humphries said.

    But advocates for Lucas argued in a clemency petition that he should be spared because he has changed during his 18 years in prison and has helped many fellow Death Row inmates.

    “Daniel committed murder,” his lawyers wrote in the clemency petition filed with the board last week. “He deserves to be punished harshly, as he has been and will continue to be. But he has also shown that he is much more than his crime. He is an example of how someone who has done something terribly wrong can repent and choose a different path. And in choosing that path, he … wants to continue giving back to the world.”

    They said in the petition that Lucas now follows Buddhist teachings that focus on compassion and wisdom through daily meditation. He “wants to atone for what he did to the Moss family. … He lives his life today in a manner that gives strength and inspiration to others both inside the prison and out, and he will continue to do so if the board gives him the opportunity,” his lawyers wrote.

    Lucas exhausted his appeals in October when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take his case.

    Stephen Bradley, district attorney of the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit, called the crime incomprehensible. “You can’t get your head around it,” he said.

    What happened 18 years ago in the house on Griswoldville Road outside the tiny Middle Georgia town of Grey was detailed in Rhode’s and Lucas’ confessions, investigators’ reports and trial testimony.

    Lucas, then 19, and Rhode, 18, were inside the Moss house, looking for anything they could sell to buy drugs, when Bryan got home from school.

    The boy saw the two men through the window, so he picked up a bat propped just outside the backdoor.

    Lucas and Rhode, armed with .25-caliber and .357-caliber handguns, saw Bryan too. They were waiting for him when he crept into the house.

    Lucas shot and wounded the boy.

    When the men saw Kristin walking up the driveway, they moved Bryan to another room and shot him again, this time killing the boy.

    Then they shot Kristin.

    Steven Moss, a truck driver, was killed moments after he stepped through the door.

    To ensure the children were dead, Lucas shot all three again and again.

    Steven Moss’ wife and the children’s mother, Gerri Ann, found her family dead about an hour later.

    “They could have got away (without killing anyone) but they didn’t want to leave any witnesses,” Humphries said.

    But there were people who knew of Lucas’ and Rhode’s plans to go to the Moss house, and there were witnesses who saw them leaving in a red car.

    Two days after the murders, Lucas and Rhode were in custody.

    Rhode was executed in 2010 after a six-day delay because he tried to kill himself by slitting his own throat and wrists. That’s the year, according to the clemency petition, that Lucas sank into a deep depression and began to study Buddhism.

    “This is the worst of the worst sort of crime,” said prosecutor Bradley. “The impact on the community and the impact on the surviving member of the family is unspeakable. … We thought we were a sleepy little town. We didn’t have home invasions. This case made us think bad things could happen in the world.”

    http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local...5th-exe/nrBqq/

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    This will be denied after all the years on DR previous he finds religion when his partner is executed. Well this never works and I find these arguments insulting he killed two children in cold blood and their father instead of stealing and killing they should have found working at a regular job and rehab.

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    AMEN !!!!!! There's alady without her two kids and husband.

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    Parole Board deciding if it will stop Lucas execution

    The state Board of Pardons and Paroles is weighing what it heard Tuesday in lengthy meetings with those who want Daniel Anthony Lucas spared and those who want his execution carried out as scheduled for the 1998 murders of a Middle Georgia father and his children.

    The board spent about 3 1/2 hours with Lucas’ lawyers this morning. In the afternoon, the local prosecutors, detectives and the widow of the man he murdered spoke to the five Parole Board members, taking about 1 1/2 hours. The former district attorney, Fred Bright, and Gerri Ann Moss were on the telephone with the board while about 10 others were in the room when they made their pleas that Lucas be executed at 7 p.m. tomorrow.

    Lucas’ lawyers filed a petition for clemency last week but they did not file an court appeal until Tuesday afternoon.

    They asked the Parole Board to stop his lethal injection because the murderer is sorry he killed Steven Moss, 15-year-old Kristian Moss and 11-year-old Bryan Moss. They also said Lucas now practices Buddishm and he wants to spend the rest of his life helping other inmates.

    Lucas’ appeal was filed in the Superior Court in Butts County, where Death Row is located, about 31 hours before the 42-year-old’s scheduled lethal injection. If he is put to death, Lucas will be the fifith person Georgia has executed in less than three months.

    In that filing, Lucas’ lawyers complained that jurors were not told about his abusive upbringing or about his addictions. The appeal also said that while Lucas wasan adult when he committed the three murders, he should still be considered ineligible for the death penalty because at even at the age 19 he remained very much a juvenile; state law and the federal courts prohibit the death penalty for anyone who was younger than 18 when they committed their crimes.

    His lawyers wrote in the court filing that prosecutors’ portrayal of Lucas “as a mature adult at the time of the crimes was profoundly misleading. … Adolescents do not magically become ‘adults’ once they turn 18. Rather, they continue to be vulnerable to peer pressure and risk-taking behavior just like people under 18 years. Indeed, neuroscience has shown that adolescent brains do not fully mature until a person is in his mid-20s.”

    In the afternoon, Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney Stephen Bradley, the head prosecutor for Jones County, and investigators who found Lucas and his accomplice and heard their confessions detailed the crime for the five board members.

    Bradley said he could not repeat what others said during the meeting but said Gerri Ann Moss and other family described the “deep impact” the murders had, had on them and the difficulty they have had trying to “stop being scared.

    “They were certainly listening,” Bradley said of the board.

    The board has the option of commuting Lucas’ sentence to life without parole, ordering a 90-day stay in his execution to allow time to gather more information or denying his request. There could be a decision as soon as today.

    Lucas and Brandon Rhode, 18 at the time, were sentenced to die for murdering three of the four members of the Moss family on Sept. 27, 2010.

    The 11-year-old boy, just home from school, saw Lucas and Rhode ransacking his house so he picked up an aluminum baseball bat and went inside to confront the two.

    First Lucas and Rhode shot and wounded Bryan. They took him to a back room when they say his older sister get off the school bus. They shot and killed Bryan after securing Kristin in a chair. Then they killed her too.

    Moments later, their father, a truck driver, came home from work and he, too, was shot. His body fell at his daughter’s feet and that is where his wife and the children’s mother found him about an hour later.

    Rhode was executed in September 2010. After setting an execution date for him, officials had to delay it almost a week because he attempted suicide by cutting his own neck and wrists.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/p...-execut/nrCJP/
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    Heidi, Don't be surprised if the board consider him for clemency. Like I said I think his attorney will use the Patty Hurst defense (BRAIN WASH). His attorney's going to portray him as a victim. They going to say he was brain washed and afraid of Brandon Rhodes. This one has me concerned. The board probably will hold it's decision until tomorrow.

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    I hope the board denies Lucas' clemency petition Wednesday. He is just to blame as Rhode was, let justice go to the family and finally close this case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GASMANDIRTY View Post
    Heidi, Don't be surprised if the board consider him for clemency. Like I said I think his attorney will use the Patty Hurst defense (BRAIN WASH). His attorney's going to portray him as a victim. They going to say he was brain washed and afraid of Brandon Rhodes. This one has me concerned. The board probably will hold it's decision until tomorrow.
    Didn't see anything like that mention in the news reports of the hearing looks to me like they are playing the he's reformed now card

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    Parole Board denies Daniel Lucas’ clemency request

    The state Board of Pardons and Paroles today denied condemned murderer Daniel Anthony Lucas’ plea for clemency.

    Unless the courts stop his scheduled execution, Lucas will be put to death tomorrow evening for the 1998 murders of a Middle Georgia father and his children.

    The board spent about 3 1/2 hours with Lucas’ lawyers this morning. In the afternoon, the local prosecutors, detectives and the widow of the man he murdered spoke to the five Parole Board members, taking about 1 1/2 hours. The former district attorney, Fred Bright, and the widow and mother of the children murdered, Gerri Ann Moss, were on the telephone with the board while about 10 others were in the room when they made their pleas that Lucas be executed at 7 p.m. tomorrow.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/p...-execut/nrCJP/
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