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Mon., January 30, 2012 8:00am
The Georgia pardons board is set to consider the case of a death row inmate who has refused to file appeals that would likely delay his execution for years. The Board of Pardons and Paroles is meeting Monday to review the case of Nicholas Cody Tate.
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Wed., September 28, 2011 10:03am
The state Board of Pardons and Paroles will consider clemency on Monday for Georgia death row inmate Marcus Ray Johnson. Johnson is scheduled to die by lethal injection next Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. Johnson was convicted of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, rape and aggravated battery in Dougherty County in 1998 for the 1994 killing of Angela Sizemore in Albany.
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Mon., September 19, 2011 1:59pm
Defense attorneys asked the Georgia pardons board to grant clemency to Troy Davis who is scheduled to be executed for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty Savannah police officer. Davis is scheduled to die Wednesday for Mark MacPhail's murder. It is the fourth time in four years the state has tried to execute him, but now his legal appeals are exhausted.
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Thu., June 23, 2011 8:47am
A death row inmate convicted of killing a 78-year-old Savannah woman is set to become the first person in Georgia executed using a new lethal injection drug.
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Wed., June 22, 2011 9:52am
A Fulton County judge has temporarily halted the execution of an inmate while she considers his challenge to Georgia's recent switch to a new legal injection drug. Roy Willard Blankenship was to be executed Thursday for the 1978 murder of a Savannah woman. It would be the first in Georgia using pentobarbital as part of its three-drug combination.
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Tue., June 7, 2011 8:24am
A judge has ordered the execution of a Georgia death row inmate who was convicted of the 1978 slaying of an elderly woman in Savannah. The execution would be carried-out with a new three-drug cocktail.
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Mon., March 28, 2011 1:07pm
Death penalty opponents are condeming a Supreme Court decision that sets the stage for Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis to be executed. The court [Monday] rejected Davis' latest appeals after justices gave him a rare chance to prove his innocence.
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Fri., August 28, 2009 7:42am
Georgia’s attorney general has until October 10th to file a written respons
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