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State Board Of Pardons Denies Clemency for Kenneth Fults
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The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied death row inmate Kenneth Fults’ plea for clemency. The board announced its decision Monday evening.
The 48-year-old is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.
Fults was convicted of the 1996 murder of his neighbor, Cathy Bounds, during a robbery attempt at her Spalding County home. He pleaded guilty, and a jury sentenced him to death.
After presenting evidence that a juror used a racial slur when referring to Fults, his attorneys tried to get a new sentencing hearing. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected that appeal last October.
If executed, Fults would be the fourth person put to death in Georgia in 2016. The state executed 41-year-old Joshua Bishop on March 31, 45-year-old Travis Hittson on Feb. 17, and 72-year-old Brandon Jones on Feb. 3.
The state’s next execution is set for April 27. Daniel Anthony Lucas was sentenced to die for the deaths of 37-year-old Steven Moss, his 11-year-old son, Bryan, and his 15-year-old daughter, Kristin: all of whom interrupted a burglary at their home near Macon.
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