ATLANTA—Georgia is scheduled on Tuesday to execute a man for the 1990 shotgun murder of his sister-in-law, as lawyers for the inmate argue the lethal injection should be halted because his conviction was tainted by a juror with racist views.
Keith Tharpe, 59, who is black, is due to be executed at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson for murdering Jackie Freeman, the sister of his wife, Migrisus Tharpe.
