The parole board is set to meet for a clemency hearing the day before a Lumpkin County man is scheduled to die by lethal injection. The state Board of Pardons and Paroles will meet at 9 a.m. Nov. 15 regarding Steven Frederick Spears. Spears is scheduled for execution on Nov. 16 at the Georgia Diagnostic Classification Prison in Jackson.
Clemency hearing scheduled for Lumpkin death row inmate