Georgia readies to resume executions after a 4-year pause brought by COVID and a legal agreement
An execution scheduled for next week would be the first in Georgia in more than four years
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An execution scheduled for next week would be the first in Georgia in more than four years
Joran van der Sloot is currently facing a 28-year prison sentence but was handed additional time because of a drug smuggling scandal in prison
Virgil Delano Presnell Jr., 68, was sentenced to death for the murder of an 8-year-old and rape of her 10-year-old friend after abducting them in May 1976 as they walked home from school in Cobb County.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Supreme Court says that a state pledge to not execute some inmates until certain conditions are met following the COVID-19 pandemic is a binding contract that the state can't ignore.
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