JACKSON, Ga. (AP) -- The latest on a death row inmate scheduled to die Tuesday in Georgia (all times local): 11:05 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution sought by a Georgia man scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the 1992 killing of a friend of his mother. The high court released a brief statement shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday saying the request for a stay had been presented to Justice Clarence Thomas for the court and that it had been denied. No explanation was given. Brian Keith Terrell was originally scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. Tuesday though the time passed as his lawyers presented a series of late filings to the nation's highest court. Terrell...
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