ATLANTA (AP) A clemency hearing is set for a Georgia death row inmate set to be executed later this month.
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles announced Tuesday that it will hear from advocates for Joshua Bishop on March 30. Bishop is scheduled to die the next day.
Bishop was convicted of murder and armed robbery in the 1994 beating death of Leverett Morrison in Milledgeville.
The parole board is the only entity in Georgia authorized to commute a death sentence.
Bishop, Morrison and Mark Braxley had been drinking and smoking crack on June 24, 1994. Prosecutors say Bishop tried to steal keys from Morrison, who was sleeping, and beat Morrison to death when he woke up.
Bishop and Braxley dumped Morrison's body between two trash bins and burned his Jeep.
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