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The execution – Georgia’s first in more than four years – was carried out by lethal injection at 11:03 p.m. at a prison in Jackson, about 50 miles south of Atlanta, the Georgia Department of ...
A Georgia clemency panel has voted against allowing a death row inmate, who is set to be executed later this week, to spend the rest of his days in prison.. Willie James Pye, 59, has been on death ...
His execution at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson occurred hours after its scheduled time of 7 p.m., after an appeals court and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected efforts ...
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
Willie James Pye (January 6, 1965 – March 20, 2024) was an American convicted murderer who murdered his ex-girlfriend Alicia Lynn Yarbrough after he kidnapped and raped her with two accomplices originally committing a robbery at the home of Yarbrough's boyfriend in 1993.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Georgia. 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]
Pye had been on the state’s death row for 28 years. The last person in Georgia to be executed was Donnie Cleveland Lance in 2020. Executions in the state came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The execution is set for March 20 at 7 p.m., after the judge set an execution window between noon that day and noon on March 27. (Photo credit: Georgia Department of Corrections via AP)