ATLANTA - Representatives seeking clemency for condemned inmate Daniel Anthony Lucas are scheduled to meet with the State Board of Pardons and Paroles at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Lucas is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

On September 16, 1999, 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. 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 and he was sentenced to death by the jury.

Lucas’ direct appeal proceedings and his state and federal habeas corpus proceedings have been concluded. The United States Supreme Court denied Lucas’ request to appeal on October 5, 2015. The Superior Court of Jones County issued the execution order.

In Georgia, the Parole Board has the sole constitutional authority to grant clemency and commute, or reduce a death sentence to life with the possibility of parole or to life without the possibility of parole. Only after an inmate appears to have exhausted all judicial avenues of relief will the Parole Board consider granting a commutation to a death-sentenced inmate. The Board maintains a comprehensive file on each inmate on death row. The file includes the history of the life of the condemned inmate, the inmate’s criminal history and the circumstances of the offense that was committed resulting in the death sentence.

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, S.E., 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 Lucas 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.

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