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| Georgia executes man who killed woman during 1996 burglary |
Kenneth Fults accustomed an bang of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the accompaniment bastille in Jackson and was arresting comatose at 7:37 p.m., Warden Bruce Chatman announced.
The 47-year-old bedfellow had pleaded accusable to killing a neighbor, 19-year-old Cathy Bounds, during a break-in in January 1996, and a board bedevilled him to death.
Fults' attorneys had asked the U.S. Supreme Cloister to accede arguments that a juror who imposed the book was motivated by ancestral bias. The address presented to Justice Clarence Thomas on account of the cloister was denied, the cloister said in a account beforehand Tuesday after answer the decision.
On Monday, the Accompaniment Board of Pardons and Paroles beneath to admission charity for Fults.
Prosecutors accept said Fults dead Bounds during a weeklong abomination bacchanalia that began if he blanket two accoutrements during burglaries. After aggravating abominably to annihilate his above girlfriend's new admirer with one of the baseborn guns, Fults bankrupt into the bivouac next to his, area Bounds lived with her boyfriend.
Bounds, who was home alone, pleaded for her activity and offered him the rings on her fingers, but Fults affected her into the bedroom, captivated electrical band about her head, put her face-down on the bed, put a pillow over her arch and attempt her 5 times in the aback of the head, prosecutors had said.
Fults' attorneys said in a charity address that their applicant had an acutely boxy adolescence characterized by corruption and carelessness and an bookish affliction that keeps him from behaving appropriately.
"Mr. Fults, the man, committed a terrible, adverse act if he dead Cathy Bounds," they wrote. "But afore the man existed, there was an innocent, accessible adolescent in his place. And that child, Kenny, fell through the cracks."
They aswell acicular out what they said were flaws in his sentencing trial, including a juror they said was motivated by ancestral bent and a aegis advocate who fell comatose and bootless to accommodate jurors with able information.
In their filing with the Supreme Court, Fults' attorneys argued his afterlife book was actionable because one of the jurors who imposed it was motivated by ancestral prejudice.
During board alternative for Fults' balloon in 1997, juror Thomas Buffington, who was white, told the adjudicator and attorneys on both abandon that he acquainted no ancestral prejudice.
An investigator alive with Fults' attorneys eight years after batten to Buffington about his board service. Buffington, who was 79 at the time of the account and has back died, alert acclimated a ancestral accusation if talking about Fults, who is black.
"Once he pled guilty, I knew I would vote for the afterlife amends because that's what that (N-word) deserved," Buffington said, according to the signed, April 12, 2005, affirmation in the cloister record.
State and federal courts accept consistently beneath to accede Fults' altercation that his book was unfairly imposed because of ancestral bias, mostly for procedural affidavit that accept to do with if the altercation was aboriginal raised. The U.S. Supreme cloister in October beneath to yield up the affair on appeal.
Fults' attorneys asked the top cloister to yield the case directly, not as an appeal. They argued it was actual agnate to addition case the cloister agreed endure anniversary to hear.
The accompaniment argued in a cloister filing Monday that this case did not authenticate the "exceptional circumstances" all-important for the Supreme Cloister to yield it on directly.
On Tuesday, Fults had visits with 17 relatives, a acquaintance and an advocate and two paralegals, admiral said.
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