The State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency late Wednesday for Carlton Gary, who has been on death row for 32 years following his conviction for three 1970s murders in Columbus that prosecutors attributed to “the stocking strangler.”

The board’s order leaves the execution scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

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