Death row inmate Marcus Ray Johnson denied beer as last meal

“The duty of the Board of Pardons and Paroles is to act as a fail-safe to prevent miscarriages of justice such as the execution of persons whom the evidence shows may be innocent”, Brian Kammer, an attorney for Johnson, said in a statement.

A death row inmate’s last meal request for a six pack of beer has been denied.

The execution is scheduled for 7pm Thursday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, according to NBC News. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Johnson’s appeals for a stay of execution without comment Thursday evening.

Johnson told police he had sex with Sizemore in a nearby vacant lot before punching her in the nose “when she became clingy”, his petition states, but he said she was alive when he left.

In April of this year, a judge denied Johnson’s motion for a new trial and Wednesday he was denied clemency.

Protesters with their signs stood behind ropes at the Jackson State Prison, calling for an end to the death penalty.

The application of the death penalty is characterized by arbitrary, inaccurate and morally bankrupt judgments, he said.

Johnson visited with three paralegals, an attorney, two investigators, one friend and five family members until around 3 p.m., and then was moved to a holding cell just a few steps from the death chamber. Her body was found around 8 a.m. inside her SUV, which was parked behind an apartment complex on the other side of town from the bar. Sizemore’s now 26-year-old daughter, Kathryn Barker, seen Johnson draw his last breath as she sat with former Dougherty County district lawyer Ken Hodges, who kept a protecting arm round her. Barker was in kindergarten when her mother was murdered. Later reports showed she’d been cut and stabbed 41 times with a small, boring knife.

Johnson has always denied killing Sizemore.