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 Brian Keith Terrell, 47, was convicted of shooting and beating to
death John Watson after Watson threatened to prosecute him for
stealing money out of his bank account by using forged checks, court
records said.
At the time of the killing, Terrell had just been paroled from
prison on a home invasion robbery conviction, the documents showed.
Terrell is scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. EDT Tuesday at the
Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.
Terrell had been scheduled to die last March but was spared after
prison officials detected a "cloudy" appearance in the pentobarbital
drug used for executions.
 In court documents filed last week, Terrell's lawyer said the state
still does not know what caused the drug to be defective and has not
adopted safeguards to prevent it from happening again.
But Georgia's attorneys said the pentobarbital was cloudy because it
was stored at too low a temperature and that the state has executed
two other inmates with the drug since then without incident.
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles late on Monday denied
Terrell's request for clemency.
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Terrell declined to request a last meal and will instead be offered
the standard menu of chicken and rice, rutabagas, seasoned turnip
greens, dry white beans, cornbread, bread pudding and fruit punch,
according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Terrell would be the 28th person executed this year in the United
States, according to the non-profit Death Penalty Information
Center.
(Editing by Karen Brooks; editing by Grant McCool)
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