Decision on Fugate to be made Monday

Less than a day after two of its members resigned suddenly amid a state ethics investigation, the Board of Pardons and Paroles decided Friday to delay a ruling on clemency for condemned killer Wallace Fugate. <br> <br> The board will likely announce a decision on Monday, spokeswoman Stephanie McConnell said. The 52-year-old Fugate is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Tuesday for the 1991 shooting death of his ex-wife. <br> <br> McConnell says the board wants to further consider an argument by Fugate&#39;s attorney, Stephen Bright, that any decision on Fugate&#39;s fate be put aside for at least 90 days so the parole board can recover from the shakeup. <br> <br> Dogged by a state ethics investigation, parole board members Bobby Whitworth and Walter Ray resigned Thursday. Gov. Barnes immediately appointed Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Buddy Nix to fill one vacancy on the five-member board and said he will fill the other later.

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