ATLANTA (AP) – The head of Georgia’s Department of Corrections on Wednesday set an execution date for a man convicted of killing a woman by shooting her in the head five times.
Department Commissioner Homer Bryson scheduled the execution of 47-year-old Kenneth Fults for 7 p.m. April 12, according to a department news release. Fults pleaded guilty in 1997 to killing Cathy Bounds in January 1996, and a jury sentenced him to die.
Bounds’ death came during a weeklong crime spree that started when he stole two guns during burglaries, prosecutors said. After trying unsuccessfully to kill his former girlfriend’s new boyfriend with one of the stolen guns, Fults broke into the Spalding County home of the 19-year-old Bounds, prosecutors said.
Bounds pleaded for her life, but Fults forced her into the bedroom, 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 confessed to killing Bounds after a law enforcement officer confronted him with a boastful letter he had written in gang code that described the slaying, prosecutors said. But Fults told authorities he shot her by accident while in a dream-like state, prosecutors said.