BUTTS COUNTY, Ga. — Keith Tharpe is requesting high-calorie foods for his final meal.
Tharpe was sentenced to death in 1991 for the murder of Jacquelin Freeman. On the morning of Sept. 25, 1990, Tharpe intercepted his estranged wife and Freeman — who was married to Tharpe’s wife’s brother — as they drove to work.
He pulled in front of their car, blocking them, and pulled out the 29-year-old Freeman. Tharpe threw Freeman into a ditch and shot him three times with a shotgun.
The 59-year-old has been on death row for more than 25 years.
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For his last meal, Tharpe requested three spicy chicken breasts, roast beef sandwich with sauce, fish sandwich, tater logs, onion rings, apple pie and a vanilla milkshake.
Attorneys for Tharpe allege that a juror in the original trial had a racial bias, thus tainting the death sentence.
Georgia's parole board plans to consider clemency for an inmate scheduled for execution. The parole board is the only authority in Georgia with power to commute a death sentence.
There have been 69 men and one woman executed in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
If executed, Tharpe will be the 48th inmate put to death by lethal injection. There are presently 56 men under death sentence in Georgia.
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