ATLANTA - The State Board of Pardons and Paroles met today, April 26, 2016, with representatives for condemned inmate Daniel Anthony Lucas in order to consider a request for clemency for Lucas. The Board’s decision is to deny clemency.

Lucas is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

Lucas was convicted of murdering eleven-year-old Bryan Moss, fifteen-year-old Kristin Moss, and their father Steven Moss during a 1998 burglary of the Moss home. On September 16, 1999, Lucas was found guilty on three counts of malice murder, three counts of felony murder, two counts of burglary, and one count of kidnapping with bodily injury. He was sentenced to death by the jury. The Superior Court of Jones County issued the execution order. 

In reaching its decision to deny clemency in this case, in addition to information received during today’s meeting, the Parole Board reviewed all case materials from the comprehensive parole file of Lucas. The file includes the inmate’s criminal history and the circumstances of the offense that was committed resulting in the death sentence. 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. 

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.