The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/04/08
Condemned double murderer Curtis Osborne made no special request for his last meal, telling prison officials he would eat the same thing the other inmates have today. If he is executed as scheduled at 7 p.m., Osborne's final meal will be a cheeseburger, potatoes, baked beans, slaw and a cookie.
The state Board of Pardons and Paroles, which under the Georgia Constitution is the only entity that can commute a sentence, declined Osborne's plea for mercy Monday.
Osborne stands to be the second person Georgia has executed in a month and the fourth in the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the three-drug procedure of lethal injection used by Georgia and 36 other states.
Osborne was sentenced to die for the 1990 murders of Arthur Jones and Linda Lisa Seaborne. The prosecutor said at trial that Osborne killed Jones because Osborne didn't want to give him the $400 he got for selling Jones' motorcycle. Seaborne was killed because she was there, authorities have said.
Opponents of Osborne's execution, including former President Jimmy Carter and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, have argued that he should not be put to death because his lawyer failed him at trial.
They claim his lawyer, the late Johnny Mostiler, was a racist who did not tell Osborne there was a plea offer for a life sentence and offered very little evidence to persuade jurors to sentence Osborne to life instead of death.
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