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 Daniel Anthony Lucas, 37, was put to death by lethal injection at
9:54 p.m. local time at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification
Prison in Jackson, the Georgia Department of Corrections said.
Lucas confessed to fatally shooting Bryan Moss, 11, near Macon on
April 23, 1998, after the boy arrived home from school and found
Lucas and Brandon Rhode burglarizing the house, according to court
records.
Rhode next shot Bryan's sister, Kristin Moss, 15, and their father,
Steven Moss, 37, when they arrived home, and Lucas then "shot all
three victims again to make sure they were dead," Lucas' attorneys
wrote in court papers.
Georgia executed Rhode for the murders in 2010.
 Lucas was the fifth person executed this year in Georgia and the
13th in the United States, according to the non-profit Death Penalty
Information Center.
Lucas' lawyers described him as a changed man in a petition asking
the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute his
sentence to life with parole, but the board denied the request late
Tuesday. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Lucas' request for a stay of
the execution on Wednesday.
"For the past 18 years he has devoted himself to learning and self
improvement," the petition said. "He has been a model inmate. He has
found faith."
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After enduring an abusive childhood, Lucas became a "desperate
alcoholic and addict, and he committed a horrible crime," his
lawyers said, but is "not beyond redemption."
Lucas requested a last meal of meat pizza, steak and cheese calzone,
stuffed Portobello mushroom, chef salad with ranch dressing and
honey mustard dressing, and orange juice, according to the Georgia
Department of Corrections.
(Editing by Curtis Skinner, Karen Brooks, Chizu Nomiyama and Kim
Coghill)
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