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Opened in 1969, [ 3 ]Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP) is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Butts County, Georgia, [ 4 ] near Jackson. [ 5 ] The prison holds the state execution chamber. The execution equipment was moved to the prison in June 1980, with the first execution in the facility ...
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 ...
Kelly Renée Gissendaner (née Brookshire; March 8, 1968 – September 30, 2015) was an American woman who was executed by the U.S. state of Georgia. Gissendaner had been convicted of orchestrating the murder of her husband, Douglas Gissendaner (December 14, 1966 – February 7, 1997). [1][2] At the time of the murder, Gissendaner was 28, and ...
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 ...
Georgia late Wednesday executed a man for the first time since January 2020, joining other states that have revived the practice as the death penalty in the U.S. entered a new frontier of ...
Georgia State Prison was the main maximum-security facility in the US state of Georgia for the Georgia Department of Corrections. It was located in unincorporated Tattnall County . [ 1 ] First opened in 1938, the prison housed some of the most dangerous inmates in the state's history, and it was the site of Georgia's death row until 1980.
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 150 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 1 day Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
Tiffany Moss is currently Georgia's only female death row inmate. She was convicted in 2019 for the 2013 torture and starvation death of her stepdaughter, Emani Moss. [13] Kelly Gissendaner was executed on September 30, 2015, for the orchestration of her husband's murder on February 7, 1997. She was the first woman to be executed by the state ...