The execution is scheduled for 7pm Thursday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, according to NBC News.
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Johnson declined a final prayer and refused to record a final statement.
He was pronounced dead at 10:11 p.m.
Johnson’s attorneys say only a speck of Sizemore’s blood was found on Johnson’s jacket, consistent with his statement that he punched her in the nose. Prosecutors said defense theories had been rejected by the courts and there was no doubt Johnson killed Sizemore. The application of the death penalty is characterized by arbitrary, inaccurate and morally bankrupt judgments, he said.
This means An execution date has been set for a Dougherty County man convicted of a 1994 murder.
“Of all the death penalty cases I had, what happened to the victim in this case was the most vile and reprehensible of any”, he said.
On Wednesday evening, Texas carried out its last scheduled execution of the year, putting Raphael Holiday, 36, to death for killing three children by burning their home down in 2000.
The state Supreme Court has also denied his request to appeal a ruling yesterday by the Butts County Superior Court.
On Wednesday, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, the only entity authorized to commute a death sentence, voted to deny clemency. The board, as is its custom, did not give a reason for its denial. He met her in a south Georgia nightclub.
Her body was found lying across the passenger seat of her vehicle the following morning by a man walking his dog. The board denied the request last night, clearing the way for his execution.
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In a filing to the Supreme Court, Johnson’s attorneys argue that his “conviction for murder is based on fundamentally inaccurate and unreliable evidence”.
