Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson, now vice president and general counsel of PepsiCo in Purchase, N.Y., tried to help Curtis Osborne avoid the death penalty in Georgia. It didn’t work.
Thompson was one of several luminaries-including former President Jimmy Carter-who wrote letters in support Osborne’s clemency plea, handled pro bono by Thompson’s former law firm, King & Spalding. In his May 28 letter to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, Thompson asked the group to commute Osborne’s sentence to life imprisonment without parole.
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