[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----GEORGIA

[Rick Halperin]

April 26



GEORGIA----impending execution

The state parole board has denied clemency for a Georgia death row inmate 
scheduled to die this week


The state parole board has denied clemency for a Georgia death row inmate 
scheduled to die this week.

Daniel Anthony Lucas is set to be put to death Wednesday at the state prison in 
Jackson by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is the only entity authorized to commute 
a death sentence in Georgia. The board denied clemency Tuesday after holding a 
hearing.

Lucas was sentenced to death for the April 1998 killings 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.

Lucas' lawyers have said his childhood was plagued by drugs and violence. They 
say he's been reformed in prison and should be spared.

Lucas would be the 5th inmate executed in Georgia this year.

(source: Associated Press)