ATLANTA (AP) – The Latest on Georgia’s scheduled execution of inmate Kenneth Fults (all times local):
3:15 p.m.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request to halt the planned execution of a Georgia inmate, who had asked the justices to consider his claim that one of the jurors who imposed his death sentence was motivated by racial bias.
The nation’s highest court, in a one-sentence statement released in Washington, gave no explanation for denying the petition presented by lawyers for death row inmate Kenneth Fults. The statement said the petition for a stay had been presented to Justice Clarence Thomas and was denied.
Fults was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Tuesday evening at the state prison in Jackson. The 47-year-old inmate had pleaded guilty to killing a neighbor, 19-year-old Cathy Bounds, during a burglary in January 1996, and a jury sentenced him to death.