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An estimated 27 to 42 people died. [2] 1956 December 2–3 Approximately 2,000 Georgia Tech students rioted after Governor Marvin Griffin requested the Georgia Board of Regents to bar the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team from competing in the 1956 Sugar Bowl against an integrated opponent. [3] 1967 June 17–20 1967 Atlanta riots
The riots lasted 11 days, involved more than 100 hostages, and burned down a substantial portion of the facility. [3] During the riot, 32 year-old Cuban inmate Jose Pena-Perez was killed by a correctional officer. According to prison warden Joseph Petrovsky, the officer shot the inmate to protect a fellow officer. [2]
Georgia was decided in 1976; Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision ending the de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by the Court in its 1972 decision Furman v. Georgia; List of death row inmates in Georgia; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2015
A father from Georgia has been released from prison 10 years after his toddler died in a hot car, a case that made global headlines after prosecutors accused him of murder. Justin Ross Harris was ...
The Georgia Department of Corrections in a statement said it's investigating the deaths at Smith State Prison in rural southeast Georgia. The agency provided few immediate details, including how ...
Georgia prison officials have flagrantly violated a court order to reform conditions for prisoners in the state's most restrictive holding facility, showing “no desire or intention" to make the ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with others, was arrested at an Atlanta sit-in on October 19, 1960. While the others were released, King was held regarding a previous traffic case and was transferred to the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia on October 22, where he was a prisoner until October 29; pressure from soon-to-be president John F. Kennedy, and the entire Kennedy family, saw King ...
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