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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 ...
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 ...
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
The mother of a prison worker at Georgia’s Smith State Prison discovered an inmate killed her daughter after another convict called her using a contraband phone.. Aramark employee Aureon Grace ...
A Georgia prison guard shot and killed a prisoner she had helped escort to a hospital for treatment after he snatched another guard's pepper spray and used it to overpower him, authorities said ...
Hoyt's condition deteriorated and he died unable to move, swallow, or speak in 1995. By then, their oldest sons, Randy and Andy, were both showing symptoms of the disease. On June 8, 2002, Carr killed both men in the room they shared at SunBridge Nursing Home in Griffin, Georgia. [3] Both men died of a single gunshot wound to the head.
A corrections officer at a south Georgia prison was killed Sunday after an inmate allegedly attacked him “from behind with a homemade weapon,” the state department of corrections announced in ...
The State of Georgia passed a rewritten death penalty law in 1973. In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Georgia death penalty was constitutional. [19] In June 1980 the site of execution was moved to GDCP, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the original one. The original chair was put on display at the Georgia State Prison.