Ninja0980
September 21st, 2010, 12:21 PM
http://www.ajc.com/news/clemency-denied-rhode-scheduled-615455.html
Clemency was denied Friday to a Georgia man condemned for a 1998 triple murder.
The relatives and supporters of Brandon Joseph Rhode asked the state Board of Pardons and Paroles for mercy five days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection.
The board voted Friday to deny clemency.
Rhode, born in 1979, and a partner, did not set out to commit murder when they broke into the Jones County house of Steven and Gerri Ann Moss on April 23, 1998, according to trial testimony.
Their plan was to commit a burglary.
But 11-year-old Bryan was murdered when he came home from school, then his 15-year-old sister, Kristin, and then their 37-year-old father, Steven Moss.
According to testimony, Rhode and Daniel Lucas made two trips to the Moss house that day. The first time they left without taking anything because the alarm went off.
The boy could see the two men through a front window as they were ransacking the house. The boy, armed with a baseball bat, came in through the back, but he was subdued by Rhode and Lucas, who were armed.
They put him in a chair as they discussed what to do with him. They were still talking about their options when Lucas shot the boy in the shoulder.
Moments later, Kristin Moss was seen coming up to the house, so Lucas took Bryan to a back bedroom while Rhode waited for the boy’s sister.
Rhode put her in the same chair and shot the teenager twice.
Simultaneously, Lucas, in the back with Bryan, shot the boy again.
Rhode shot and killed their father when he got to the house.
Then the partners shot the Moss siblings several more times to be certain they were dead.
Lucas, born in 1978, is also on death row for the murders.
I can't believe there's anyone that will be protesting or mourning the death of this monster. Have fun in hell Brandon, you won't be missed.
Clemency was denied Friday to a Georgia man condemned for a 1998 triple murder.
The relatives and supporters of Brandon Joseph Rhode asked the state Board of Pardons and Paroles for mercy five days before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection.
The board voted Friday to deny clemency.
Rhode, born in 1979, and a partner, did not set out to commit murder when they broke into the Jones County house of Steven and Gerri Ann Moss on April 23, 1998, according to trial testimony.
Their plan was to commit a burglary.
But 11-year-old Bryan was murdered when he came home from school, then his 15-year-old sister, Kristin, and then their 37-year-old father, Steven Moss.
According to testimony, Rhode and Daniel Lucas made two trips to the Moss house that day. The first time they left without taking anything because the alarm went off.
The boy could see the two men through a front window as they were ransacking the house. The boy, armed with a baseball bat, came in through the back, but he was subdued by Rhode and Lucas, who were armed.
They put him in a chair as they discussed what to do with him. They were still talking about their options when Lucas shot the boy in the shoulder.
Moments later, Kristin Moss was seen coming up to the house, so Lucas took Bryan to a back bedroom while Rhode waited for the boy’s sister.
Rhode put her in the same chair and shot the teenager twice.
Simultaneously, Lucas, in the back with Bryan, shot the boy again.
Rhode shot and killed their father when he got to the house.
Then the partners shot the Moss siblings several more times to be certain they were dead.
Lucas, born in 1978, is also on death row for the murders.
I can't believe there's anyone that will be protesting or mourning the death of this monster. Have fun in hell Brandon, you won't be missed.