Georgia plans to execute man who killed sister-in-law
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A Georgia man who killed his sister-in-law 27 years ago is set to be executed Tuesday.
Keith Leroy Tharpe, known to friends and family as Bo, is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson for the September 1990 slaying of Jacquelyn Freeman.
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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Tharpe's lawyers have asked the courts to stop the execution, saying his death sentence is tainted by a juror's racial bias. Lawyers for the state have argued there's no evidence race affected jury deliberations.
The 59-year-old Tharpe would be the second inmate executed in Georgia this year. The state executed nine inmates last year.