Georgia Supreme Court again holds Fugate's fate

ATLANTA - Another round of legal filings due Thursday morning from attorneys for Wallace Fugate the third may determine whether the condemned killer gets to live past next week. <br> <br> A judge stopped Fugate&#39;s execution Tuesday -- hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection -- saying he deserved another clemency hearing before a parole board with all five members present. <br> <br> In an effort to kill Fugate before his current death warrant expires at noon next Tuesday, Attorney General Thurbert Baker immediately asked the Georgia Supreme Court to throw out the judge&#39;s ruling. <br> <br> Fugate&#39;s lead attorney, Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights, has until 10 a.m. Thursday to answer Baker&#39;s motion. If he convinces the court the judge&#39;s order should stand, Fugate would likely be afforded another clemency hearing after a vacant seat on the state Board of Pardons and Parole is filled. <br> <br> Bright said Wednesday, ``We&#39;ve been given until the morning to file a response, and I&#39;m hard at work on it as we speak.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> The 52-year-old Fugate of Putnam County was sentenced to die for the 1991 shooting death of his ex-wife, Pattie.

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