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~ Kenneth Fults, 12 Apr '16, (GA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: March 24, 2016, 9:21 pm
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Execution Date Set for Kenneth Earl Fults, Convicted of Murder--
March 23, 2016
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An execution date for Kenneth Earl Fults has been set for April
12, 2016. Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens offers the
following information in the case against Kenneth Earl Fults for
the 1996 murder of nineteen year old Cathy Bounds.
Kenneth Earl Fults’ direct appeal proceedings and his state and
federal habeas corpus proceedings have been concluded.
Accordingly, on March 23, 2016, the Superior Court of Spalding
County issued an order setting a seven-day period of time during
which the execution of Kenneth Earl Fults may take place. The
period of time ordered by the Superior Court will last from noon
on April 12, 2016, to noon on April 19, 2016. The execution has
been set for Tuesday evening, April 12, 2016.
The Georgia Supreme Court summarized the facts of the crime as
follows:
The evidence adduced at Fults’ sentencing trial showed that he
carried out a week-long crime spree which was centered, at least
in part, upon his desire to murder a man who was engaged in a
relationship with his former girlfriend. Fults first committed
two burglaries, obtaining several handguns. After a failed
attempt at murdering his former girlfriend’s new boyfriend with
one of the stolen handguns, Fults then burglarized the home of
his next-door neighbors. After the male neighbor left for work,
Fults forced his way through the front door wearing gloves and a
hat pulled down over his face. Fults confronted the female
occupant of the home, Cathy Bounds, brandishing a .22 caliber
handgun he had stolen during one of the burglaries. Ms. Bounds
begged for her life and offered Fults the rings on her fingers.
Fults turned Ms. Bounds around toward the bedroom, either taped
or forced her to tape her eyes closed by wrapping over six feet
of electrical tape around her head, forced her into the bedroom,
placed her face-down on her bed, placed a pillow over her head,
and shot her five times in the back of the head. The date was
January 30, 1996.
A search of Fults’ trailer home revealed a boastful letter he
had written in gang code in which he described the murder with
some alterations of detail. Upon being confronted with this
letter by a law enforcement officer, Fults confessed to killing
Ms. Bounds but maintained that he had shot her by accident while
in a dream-like state. The murder weapon was recovered from
under Fults’ trailer home, and .22 caliber shell casings shown
to have been fired by the murder weapon as well as items from
the earlier burglaries were found behind Fults’ trailer home.
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Re: ~ Kenneth Fults, 12 Apr '16, (GA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: April 12, 2016, 8:15 am
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Georgia to execute man who killed woman during burglary--
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is preparing to execute a death row
inmate who shot a woman to death during a burglary in 1996.
Kenneth Fults is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the state
prison in Jackson. The 47-year-old inmate pleaded guilty in 1997
to killing his neighbor, 19-year-old Cathy Bounds, and a jury
sentenced him to death.
Fults' lawyers have said he had an extremely tough childhood and
an intellectual disability that keeps him from acting
appropriately. They also pointed out flaws in his sentencing
trial, including a juror they said was motivated by racial bias
and a trial attorney who slept through part of the proceedings.
Fults would be the fourth person executed in Georgia this year.
Another inmate, Daniel Lucas, is scheduled to die April 27.
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Re: ~ Kenneth Fults, 12 Apr '16, (GA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: April 12, 2016, 9:12 pm
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Georgia executes Kenneth Fults for 1996 murder--
April 12, 2016
Georgia has executed 47-year-old Kenneth Fults for the 1996
murder of his neighbor.
Fults was killed by lethal injection at 7:37 p.m. at the Georgia
Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson.
There was no one in the execution chamber for Fults, so he had
no final words for witnesses from the media and the state who
had gathered. But he ended the prayer offered by the chaplain
with, “Amen.”
A few minutes after the execution drugs had begun to flow, he
twice looked at the IV inserted into his right arm. Moments
later, his entire body shook for a few seconds. Then he was
still. Fifteen minutes later he was pronounced dead.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Fults’ appeal for mercy nearly
four hours before the scheduled execution hour of 7 p.m.
The rejection came even before Fults was given his last meal of
steak, brown rice, baked potato and apple juice. Usually it is
well past the scheduled execution hour when the Supreme Court
decides last-minute appeals.
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles turned down his petition
for clemency Monday night.
Fults was the fourth man put to death in Georgia this year.
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