JACKSON, Ga. – Georgia has executed its fourth person this year, a man convicted of the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old woman during a 1996 crime spree.

Kenneth Fults, 47, was pronounced dead at 7:37 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Jackson after he received an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.

Earlier in the day, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to stay the execution.

Fults had pleaded guilty to killing his neighbor, Cathy Bounds, during a burglary in January 1996 and was sentenced to death by a jury.

Fults’ lawyers had said he had an extremely tough childhood and an intellectual disability that kept him from acting appropriately.

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