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Georgia reintroduced the death penalty in 1973 after Furman v. Georgia ruled all states' death penalty statutes unconstitutional. The first execution to take place afterwards occurred in 1983. 77 people in total have been executed since 1983 as of March 21, 2024. [1] As of June 30, 2024, 33 men and 1 woman are on death row awaiting execution. [2]
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) [1] was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland . Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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 black male, for rape and robbery; by electrocution on September 13, 1924, in DeKalb County.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
The progressive Georgia district attorney who was prosecuting nursing student Laken Riley’s illegal immigrant killer refused to seek the death penalty even after removing herself from the case.
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 ...
Andrew Grant DeYoung (May 12, 1974 – July 21, 2011) was an American who was convicted of and executed for the 1993 murder of his parents and sister in the state of Georgia. The state conducted the execution in H-5 of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison (GDCP) in Jackson, Georgia . [ 1 ]
A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago has been put to death in the state’s first execution in more than four years. Authorities say 59-year-old Willie James ...