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20 years' imprisonment (burglary) Willie James Pye (January 6, 1965 – March 20, 2024) was an American convicted murderer who was executed in 2024 for murdering his ex-girlfriend Alicia Lynn Yarbrough after he kidnapped and raped her. Pye acted together with two other people to commit a robbery at the home of Yarbrough's boyfriend, which in ...
Pye was convicted of murder and other crimes in the November 1993 abduction, rape and shooting death of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. Lawyers for Pye had sought clemency, saying Pye was intellectually ...
The murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. Pye, with two accomplices, intended in 1993 to rob a man with whom Yarbrough was living, an appeals court decision says. Pye was angry with Yarbrough because ...
Pye was convicted in Spalding County in the death of ex-girlfriend Alicia Yarbrough. Prosecutors said Pye, another man and a teenager went to her home, stole jewelry and abducted her as she was ...
Lena Baker was an African American maid who was executed on March 5, 1945, for killing her employer. In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate. The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a ...
Convicted of kidnapping, burglary, robbery and rape for the death of his ex-girlfriend Alicia Lynn Yarbrough in Georgia. Additionally, Pye received the death sentence in Georgia for the most serious charge of murdering Yarbrough, and he was executed by lethal injection in 2024. [152] Martin Leach: 1984 3 life sentences without parole Australia
A judge on Thursday signed the order for the execution of Willie James Pye, who was convicted of murder and other crimes in the November 1993 killing of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. Pye, 59, would be ...
Willie James Pye, 59, has been on death row for the last 28 years after being convicted of the kidnap, robbery, rape and murder of 21-year-old Alicia Lynn Yarbrough back in 1993.