Georgia to execute man convicted in triple murder this month
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Georgia has set an execution date later this month for a man convicted for the 1998 triple murders of a trucking company owner and his two children.
The Georgia Department of Corrections said in a statement Thursday that Commissioner Homer Bryson has scheduled Daniel Anthony Lucas' execution for April 27 at 7 p.m. Georgia executes inmates using an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.
Lucas, who is 37, was convicted in 1999 for the deaths of 37-year-old Steven Moss, his 11-year-old son Bryan and 15-year-old daughter Kristin, who interrupted a burglary at their home near Macon in central Georgia.
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Another man convicted in the murders, Brandon Joseph Rhode, was put to death in 2010.
Three inmates have been executed this year in Georgia and a fourth is scheduled to die Tuesday.