ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia board has voted to deny clemency to a death row inmate who is scheduled to be executed next week for the 1994 murder of a Domino's Pizza manager.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Friday voted on Mark Howard McClain's case after considering his lawyer's request for clemency.
McClain was convicted of murdering 28-year-old Kevin Brown during a robbery in Augusta. Prosecutors say McClain held Brown up at gunpoint, took $130 from the register and then shot and killed Brown as he left the store.
McClain's attorney argues that his client deserves a lesser punishment, saying the deadly shooting was the result of a "single, panicky .22 pistol shot from a considerable distance away."
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