<p>After deliberating for four hours, the state parole board on Monday denied clemency for a 34-year-old man sentenced to die Tuesday for his role in the 1992 stabbing and beating death of a Monroe County teen.</p><p>Among those pleading for his life during a two-hour hearing were Timothy Don Carr's mother, brother and aunt. His lawyer, Brian Kammer, said in his petition to the board that his client was the puppet of girlfriend Melissa Burgeson when he killed 17-year-old Keith Patrick Young near Macon.</p><p>"This crime truly would not have happened without her involvement, and it is simply unjust that Tim Carr should be executed while Burgeson may go free one day," Kammer wrote.</p><p>Carr is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. His execution would be Georgia's 37th since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1973.</p><p>Kammer asked the board to stay Carr's execution for 90 days and to commute his sentence to life in prison to match Burgeson's punishment for the crime. Neither Kammer nor Carr's family members spoke to the media after the hearing, which was closed.</p><p>According to court records, Carr, Burgeson and two 16-year-olds drove in Young's car to a remote area near Bolingbroke, about 65 miles southeast of Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 1992. There, Carr cut Young's throat at Burgeson's urging and then beat him in the head with a baseball bat as Young pleaded for his life.</p><p>Prosecutors argued Carr and one of the juveniles dragged Young's body to the roadside and left him there to die before fleeing to Murfreesburo, Tenn., in the victim's Pontiac Grand Prix. They were arrested there following a high-speed chase.</p><p>Both Carr and Burgeson were convicted of murder and theft, but Carr received the death penalty while Burgeson received life in prison with the possibility of parole. The 16-year-old boy was given 18 months in a juvenile facility, while the 16-year-old girl was turned over to state social service officials, parole board spokeswoman Kim Patton-Johnson said.</p><p>At the hearing, Kammer argued his client recieved a disproportionate sentence to Burgeson's and that prosecutors portrayed Carr as less culpable in Burgeson's trial, but more culpable during his trial to obtain a death sentence.</p><p>Kammer also told the parole board jurors in the Carr trial were unaware of Burgeson's lighter sentence and of her role in the killing, or of Carr's family history or mental illness.</p><p>Carr has requested as his last meal two mushroom and swiss hamburgers, a vanilla milkshake, a chocolate milkshake and two soft drinks.</p>
