Kenneth Fults, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, has asked for a steak dinner on his last day.
Fults, 47, requested a t-bone steak, baked potato with butter, brown rice and apple juice before he is put to death for the 1996 murder of his 19-year-old next door neighbor.
Fults pleaded guilty to killing Cathy Bounds 20 years ago and only went to trial to be sentenced.
Fults went on a week-long crime spree, breaking into houses in Spalding County so he could steal guns, planning to use them to kill his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. He tried to shoot his rival from afar but the stolen gun jammed, so he wanted to get a more reliable gun to finish his plan, according to prosecutors.
The next morning, Fults broke into Bounds’ trailer just moments after her live in boyfriend left for work. Fults wrapped six-feet of electrical tape around her eyes, led her to the bedroom and placed her face down on the bed. As Bounds begged for her life, offering him the rings on her fingers, he placed a pillow over the back of her head and shot her five times.
Investigators canvassing the trailer park after the Jan. 30, 1996, murder found the stolen .22-caliber handgun used to kill Bounds, items taken in previous burglaries and a letter Fults had written in gang code describing how he murdered his neighbor.
Fults is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification near Jackson.
If he is put to death, Fults will be the fourth person Georgia has executed by lethal injection this year. A fifth man, Daniel Anthony Lucas, was scheduled Thursday to be put to death on April 27 for killing a Jones County father and his two children, one by one, on April 23, 1998.
The only other time Georgia has executed as many as five people in a year was last year and in 1987.
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