[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----GEORGIA

[Rick Halperin]

May 2



GEORGIA----impending execution


Georgia high court declines to halt execution


Georgia’s highest court has declined to halt an execution scheduled for 
Thursday evening.

Scotty Garnell Morrow is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. at 
the state prison in Jackson.

Morrow was convicted of murder in the fatal shootings of his ex-girlfriend 
Barbara Ann Young and her friend Tonya Woods at Young’s Gainesville home in 
December 1994.

The Georgia Supreme Court declined Thursday afternoon to delay execution plans. 
The high court also declined to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that 
had rejected Morrow’s challenge to his death sentence.

Authorities have said Morrow went to the home to try to win Young back and shot 
the women when they told him to leave. A 3rd woman also was shot, but survived.

(source: Associated Press)