Entries tagged with “Kenneth Fults”
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Race
,Representation
,Upcoming Executions
,Mar 07, 2024
Georgia Sets March 20 Execution Date for Willie Pye Despite Strong Evidence of Intellectual Disability and Previous Finding of Ineffective Representation by Attorney with History of Racial Bias
The Georgia Attorney General has announced that Willie James Pye, who previously had his death sentence reversed due to his attorney’s failure to investigate his background, only to see the death sentence reinstated on appeal, is set to be executed on March 20. Mr. Pye’s court-appointed trial attorney, Johnny Mostiler, has been accused of ineffective representation or racial bias in at least four cases involving Black defendants and reportedly called one of his own clients a “little n****r.”…
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Race
,Representation
,May 10, 2021
Federal Court Reverses Death Sentence Imposed on Defendant Represented By Georgia Lawyer With History of Ineffectiveness and Racial Bias
A federal appeals court has reversed the death sentence of an African-American Georgia death-row prisoner who was represented at trial by a defense lawyer notorious for his history of substandard representation and racial bias in death-penalty…
Policy Issues
Race
,Representation
,United States Supreme Court
,Apr 28, 2021
Supreme Court Declines to Review Death Penalty Case in Which Georgia Defendant was Forced to Reenact the Murder While in Shackles
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Georgia death-penalty case in which the prosecution was permitted to make a visibly shackled defendant reenact the murder in front of the jury, while his defense counsel raised no…
Policy Issues
Intellectual Disability
,Race
,Representation
,Apr 12, 2016
Georgia Set to Execute Intellectually Disabled Inmate Whose Trial Was Tainted By Racism and Poor Representation
Georgia is preparing to execute Kenneth Fults (pictured) on April 12, following the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denial of his clemency application. Fults’ current lawyers presented evidence to the Board that Fults is intellectually disabled and “functions in the lowest 1 percent of the population.” They also argued that Fults’ trial lawyer failed to present this evidence to the jury, as well as extensive evidence that Fults endured a childhood of…