Updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:14 pm EDT
Keith Tharpe has filed a second appeal with the Supreme Court of the United States in an attempt to halt his execution.
Updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 7:04 pm EDT
Keith Tharpe currently has an appeal pending before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 11:29 am EDT
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has rejected a request for clemency from Keith Tharpe. In Georgia, unlike most states, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has the final say in granting or rejecting clemency for a death row inmate. The Board reviewed Keith's extensive file, including the case history, his appeals, mitigating evidence, and his record of behavior while in prison. Ultimately, the Board decided against grating clemency.
Updated: Monday, September 25, 2017 11:11 am EDT
Keith Leroy Tharpe is scheduled to be executed at 7 pm EDT, on Thursday, September 26, 2017, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. Fifty-nine-year-old Keith is convicted of the murder of 29-year-old Jacqueline Freeman on September 25, 1990, in Jones County, Georgia. Keith has spent the last 26 years on Georgia's death row.