Parole board denies clemency for Georgia death row inmate
Source: Associated Press
Parole board denies clemency for Georgia death row inmate
Kate Brumback, Associated Press
Updated 8:36 pm, Tuesday, February 16, 2016
ATLANTA (AP) The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency Tuesday for a Georgia inmate set to be executed this week despite his lawyers' arguments that he has shown great remorse and was manipulated into killing a fellow Navy sailor.
Travis Hittson, 45, is set to receive an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted in February 1993 of malice murder in the slaying of Conway Utterbeck when the two were Navy crewmen stationed in Pensacola, Florida.
"The community of men who served alongside both Mr. Hittson and Conway Utterbeck in the Navy believe that Travis Hittson is deserving of mercy, as do others, including jurors who were charged with determining Mr. Hittson's punishment," his lawyers wrote in a clemency application.
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles, the only entity in Georgia authorized to commute a death sentence, held a closed-door clemency hearing Tuesday. The board voted to deny clemency but, as is its custom, did not give a reason for its denial.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Panel-to-hold-clemency-hearing-for-Georgia-death-6833370.php
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Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I didn't read the whole thing but Florida catches my eye but besides that he was military so you would think federal.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)The state prosecuted him and the federal government probably declined to prosecute after the killer was given the death penalty because what would be the point? Trials do use up resources.