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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:46 PM Dec 2014

Georgia Supreme Court Refuses to Delay Execution

Source: New York Times

Georgia Supreme Court Refuses to Delay Execution
By ERIK ECKHOLMDEC. 9, 2014

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to delay the execution of Robert Wayne Holsey, rejecting his argument that the state’s unusually strict standard for judging mental disability is in violation of guidelines set by the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Holsey, who killed a deputy sheriff in Baldwin County after robbing a convenience store in 1995, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Holsey’s lawyers sent a final appeal to the Supreme Court in Washington while officials at the state prison in Jackson prepared for the execution. Mr. Holsey requested eight pieces of fried chicken for his final meal, according to the Department of Corrections.

Mr. Holsey’s case received wide attention in part because his lawyer at his trial in 1997 later admitted to drinking up to a quart of vodka a day at the time and was trying to avoid theft charges that would soon land the lawyer in prison.

An appeals court found that the defense had been deeply inept during the penalty phase of Mr. Holsey’s trial. His lawyer failed to present potentially mitigating details about Mr. Holsey’s history of abuse as a child and did not press arguments that he is intellectually disabled.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/us/georgia-supreme-court-refuses-to-delay-execution.html?_r=0

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Georgia Supreme Court Refuses to Delay Execution (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2014 OP
Kill sport nation. Warren Stupidity Dec 2014 #1
Okay atreides1 Dec 2014 #2
The State of Georgia is Sam1 Dec 2014 #3
Man executed for killing Ga. deputy after robbery Judi Lynn Dec 2014 #4

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
2. Okay
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 06:06 PM
Dec 2014

I wonder if they ever pointed out that Holsey was in fear of his life when he shot the deputy? I'm sorry, that excuse only works for law enforcement...my bad!!!

Sam1

(498 posts)
3. The State of Georgia is
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 07:48 PM
Dec 2014

only trying to correct an error in the justice system. The wrong man died in the originating altercation!

Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
4. Man executed for killing Ga. deputy after robbery
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 12:42 AM
Dec 2014

Man executed for killing Ga. deputy after robbery
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press | December 9, 2014 | Updated: December 9, 2014 10:18pm

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a Georgia man has been executed for the 1995 killing of a sheriff's deputy, who was slain minutes after a convenience store robbery.

Authorities said 49-year-old Robert Wayne Holsey was declared dead at 10:51 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Jackson.

Holsey received the death sentence for the Dec. 17, 1995, killing of sheriff's deputy Will Robinson. A jury convicted Holsey in 1997. Prosecutors said Holsey robbed a Milledgeville convenience store and the clerk immediately called police, describing the suspect and his car.

According to court documents, Robinson pulled Holsey over minutes later and Holsey fired on the deputy as he approached the car. Robinson died of a fatal head wound.

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-executed-for-killing-Ga-deputy-after-robbery-5946657.php

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