Marcus Ray Johnson was convicted on April 5, 1998 of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, rape and aggravated battery in the March 1994 death of Angela Sizemore of Albany, Ga.
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And records show that his execution had been delayed in the past.
A death row inmate’s last meal request for a six pack of beer has been denied.
Marcus Ray Johnson, 50, was declared dead at 10:11 p.m.at the state prison in Jackson, Georgia Department of Corrections officials said.
Johnson’s attorneys filed several last minute appeals with the U.S. Supreme Court that were all denied.
Johnson told police he had sex with Sizemore in a nearby vacant lot before punching her in the nose “when she became clingy”, his petition states, but he said she was alive when he left. The board held a hearing for Johnson on Wednesday and voted against granting clemency.
Johnson’s attorneys argue he shouldn’t be executed because doubts remain about his guilt.
Protesters with their signs stood behind ropes at the Jackson State Prison, calling for an end to the death penalty.
The bar owner and its security officer, who both knew Johnson, testified they had seen the two kissing, The Albany Herald reported.
The department said there have been 57 men and one woman executed in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1973.
Mary Catherine Johnson from the Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty said, “The death penalty needs to end”.
A man walking his dog later that morning found Sizemore’s body inside her SUV behind an apartment complex. Later reports showed she’d been cut and stabbed 41 times with a small, tiresome knife.
A judge stopped Johnson’s previously scheduled execution in October 2011 to allow for new DNA testing on a few evidence but later denied Johnson’s request for a new trial.
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Sizemore’s blood was found on Johnson’s jacket, and he had scratches on his hands, arms and neck, the synopsis said.
