[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----GEORGIA

[Rick Halperin]

May 2




GEORGIA----execution

Georgia executes man for killing 2 women in 1994


Georgia has executed a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and another 
woman nearly 25 years ago.

The Georgia attorney general's office said in a statement that 52-year-old 
Scotty Garnell Morrow was pronounced dead at 9:38 p.m. Thursday following an 
injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson.

Morrow was convicted of fatally shooting ex-girlfriend Barbara Ann Young and 
her friend Tonya Woods at Young's home in Gainesville in December 1994. 
Prosecutors said at trial that Morrow shot the two women and another woman when 
they turned him away as he tried to get Young to take him back. The third woman 
survived.

Lawyers for Morrow argued he shouldn't have been given the death penalty. They 
said he snapped because of lingering trauma from abuse suffered as a child.

Morrow was put to death shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a 
last-minute bid to block the execution.

Morrow becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in Georgia 
and the 73rd overall since the state resumed capital punishment in
1983.

Morrow becomes the 5th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in
the USA and the 1,495th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 
17, 1977.

Only Texas (561), Virginia (113), Oklahoma (112), Florida (97, and Missouri 
(88) have executed more inmates since the death penalty was re-legalized in the 
USA on July 2, 1976.

(sources: WRAL news & Rick Halperin)


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USA----countdown to nation's 1500th execution

With the execution of Scotty Morrow in Georgia on May 2, the USA has now
executed 1,494 condemned individuals since the death penalty was
re-legalized on July 2, 1976 in the US Supreme Court Gregg v Georgia
decision.

Gary Gilmore was the 1st person executed, in Utah, on January 17, 1977. Below
is a list of scheduled executions as the nation approaches a terrible milestone
of 1500 executions in the modern era.


NOTE: The list is likely to change over the coming months as new execution
dates are added and possible stays of execution occur.




1496-------May 16-------------Donnie Johnson-----------Tennessee

1497-------May 16-------------Michael Samra------------Alabama

1498-------May 23-------------Bobby Joe Long-----------Florida

1400-------May 30-------------Christopher Price--------Alabama

1500-------Aug. 15------------Stephen West-------------Tennessee

1501-------Aug. 21------------Larry Swearingen---------Texas

1502-------Sept. 4------------Billy Crutsinger---------Texas

1503-------Sept. 10-----------Mark Anthony Soliz-------Texas

1504------Sept. 12------------Warren Henness-----------Ohio



Learn more about efforts to #StopThe1500th Execution and how you can be
involved at
http://deathpenaltyaction.org/1500th [deathpenaltyaction.org]

(source: Rick Halperin)