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Smith was sentenced to die in the separate shooting deaths of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in February 2002.

State plans to kill 25 prisoners in less than three years but officials had sought to increase gap between executions from 60 to 90 days

Willie James Pye was put to death by lethal injection in the state’s first execution in over four years last week. Pye was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson after being convicted for a 1993 kidnapping, rape and murder of his former girlfriend. But despite the case’s significance and […] The post Georgia shields execution sights and sounds from public view when carrying out lethal injection appeared first on Georgia Recorder.

In “Death Row Welcomes You,” Steven Hale follows the cases of men in an American prison awaiting execution, examining what they did as well as the people they’ve become.

Creech’s attorneys alleged in their court filing that the execution team had “badly botched” the planned lethal injection.