ATLANTA - Monday, December 7, 2015, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles met to consider a clemency request from attorneys representing condemned inmate Brian Keith Terrell. The Board has voted to deny clemency.

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 2001 in Walton County 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 reaching its decision, in addition to hearing testimony during the meeting on Monday, the Board prior to the meeting had thoroughly reviewed Terrell’s parole case file which includes the circumstances of the death penalty case, Terrell’s criminal history, and a comprehensive history of his life.

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, Office of Communications, at 404-657-9450 or [email protected] or visit our website at www.pap.georgia.gov.