Kenneth Fults, a 47-year-old African American man sentenced to death in 1997, is due to be executed on 12 April in Georgia. In 2005, one of the jurors signed a sworn statement that he had voted for the death penalty because “that’s what the nigger deserved.”
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UPDATEGeorgia, USA: "24 hours to save Kenneth Fults"
Amnesty International UK
Kenneth Fults is an African-American man facing execution today in Georgia, USA. During the trial, his lawyer omitted vital evidence about Kenneth’s childhood and intellectual abilities, and was caught sleeping during court proceedings. A few years later, one of the jurors signed a sworn statement in which he said he voted for the death penalty because ‘that’s what the n***** deserved.’
Kenneth’s trial was heavily flawed by racial bias and legal inadequacies – the odds have been stacked against him at every level.
Tens of thousands of you have taken action to save Kenneth, but yesterday his clemency hearing was denied.
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