Board to consider clemency for inmate set for execution
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Georgia's parole board plans to consider clemency for an inmate scheduled for execution.
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has a meeting scheduled Monday to hear arguments for and against clemency for Keith Leroy Tharpe, who's set to be put to death Tuesday.
The 59-year-old inmate was convicted in the Sept. 25, 1990, shooting death of his sister-in-law, Jaquelyn Freeman. Authorities say Tharpe stopped his estranged wife and sister-in-law as they drove to work and ordered them out of the car and then fatally shot Freeman.
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The parole board is the only authority in Georgia with power to commute a death sentence.
In a clemency application, Tharpe's lawyers outlined Tharpe's rough childhood, struggles with substance abuse and his remorse over the killing.