ATLANTA - The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has invited representatives for condemned inmate Brian Keith Terrell to meet with the Board on Monday, December 7, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. to advocate clemency for him. Terrell is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday, December 8, 2015, at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

Brian Keith Terrell was found guilty of malice murder in Walton County in February 2001 in the death of John Watson.  The victim died after he was shot and beaten in Newton County on June 22, 1992. The jury recommended a sentence of death. Terrell’s appeal to the United States Supreme Court was denied on December 1, 2014.

In Georgia, the Parole Board has the sole constitutional authority to commute, or reduce, a death sentence to life with the possibility of parole or to life without the possibility of parole. The Board maintains a comprehensive file on each death-sentenced inmate. The file includes the circumstances of the offense, the inmate’s criminal history and a history of the life of the condemned inmate. Board Members will have completed a thorough review of this material prior to hearing from the inmate’s representatives on December 7, 2015. In March of this year the Board was prepared to conduct a clemency meeting for Terrell, however his scheduled execution was postponed and the meeting was not held.

It is anticipated that the meeting will be closed as authorized by O.C.G.A. § 50-14-3 (a)(2). No public comment will be taken at this meeting and no other business will be conducted. Media will be afforded the opportunity to take photographs prior to the meeting. Media should check in with credentials by 8:30 a.m. in the Board’s public reception office at 2 Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive, East Tower, 4th Floor, room 458. Media should first be cleared for entry by building security on the Plaza Level. Members of the media will be given an opportunity to wait until the conclusion of the meeting to interview those seeking executive clemency for Terrell, if they choose to grant interviews.

For more information please contact Steve Hayes, Director of the Office of Communications, at 404-657-9450 or [email protected] or visit our website at www.pap.georgia.gov.