Lori Ann Smith
Facts of the Crime:
Was first sentenced to death in October 1976 in Cobb County. Five months earlier, on May 4, 1976, he had kidnapped two school girls. Mr. Presnell confessed to lying in wait for the ten- and eight-year-old girls. He raped and sodomized the older girl and, when eight-year-old Lori Ann Smith tried to run away, he drowned her in a stream.
Presnell was re-sentenced to death in 1999.
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