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. 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.

Source: Fox News September 25, 2017 07:47 UTC