Keith Tharpe, 59, was sentenced to death back in 1991 over the brutal murder of his sister-in-law Jacquelin Freeman
A murderer on death row has requested a massive last meal before he is executed in Georgia next week.
Keith Tharpe, 59, was sentenced to death back in 1991 over the brutal murder of his sister-in-law Jacquelin Freeman.
His execution by lethal injection is scheduled to take place at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson next Tuesday.
Tharpe has requested to eat three spicy chicken breasts, a roast beef sandwich with sauce, a fish sandwich, tater logs, onion rings, an apple pie and a vanilla milkshake prior to his execution.
His scheduled death comes 27 years after he killed Freeman in Jones County on the morning of September 25, 1990.
Tharpe’s wife had left him a month earlier due to their violent marriage. He had told her over the phone that if she wanted to ‘play dirty’, he would show her how.
He stopped his wife and Freeman, who was married to Tharpe’s wife’s brother, when they were driving to work.
His execution by lethal injection is scheduled to take place at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (above) in Jackson next Tuesday
Tharpe pulled Freeman from the car, threw her in a ditch and shot her three times.
He then kidnapped his wife and was accused of sexually assaulting her by the side of the road. Tharpe was never convicted of any rape charges.
His wife managed to call police when he drove her to a bank to force her to withdraw money.
There have been 69 men and one woman executed in Georgia since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
If executed, Tharpe will be the 48th inmate put to death by lethal injection. There are currently 56 men on death row in Georgia.
A clemency hearing will be held for Tharpe on Monday.
If executed, Tharpe will be the 48th inmate put to death by lethal injection in Georgia. Above is the execution chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson