ATLANTA - The state has scheduled an execution Thursday for a man whose life was spared last year just hours before he was to be put to death. <br>
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Ronald Keith Spivey was convicted in the 1976 killing of a Columbus police officer. He was scheduled to die in the electric chair last March - but the state Supreme Court stopped the execution with four hours to go. The court later decided that the chair amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. <br>
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Spivey is set to die by injection Thursday night at the state prison in Jackson - south of Atlanta. Condemned killers usually ask the state parole board for a mercy hearing on the eve of their execution, but a board spokeswoman says there's been no such request this time. <br>
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Spivey has requested a sizable final meal - three cheeseburgers, chili, French fries, a milkshake and pickles.
