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    Judge denies condemned inmate’s request for stay of Jan. 29 execution

    A state court judge on Wednesday denied condemned inmate Donnie Lance’s request to stay his execution scheduled to take place on Jan. 29.

    Lance’s lawyers had asked Butts County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson to first decide whether the grand jury that handed up Lance’s indictment was illegally stacked with friends of the district attorney and those the prosecutor knew would be on his side. But Wilson, in a one-sentence order, declined to delay the execution.

    Lance, 65, sits on death row for the November 1997 murders in Jackson County of his ex-wife, 39-year-old Joy Lance, and her boyfriend, 33-year-old Dwight “Butch” Wood. Joy Lance was beaten to death and Wood was killed by two shotgun blasts. Lance is to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital.

    Lawyers from the state Attorney General’s Office had asked Wilson not to delay the execution. Lance has appealed his convictions for more than 20 years and his latest motion contending corruption in the selection of grand jurors was unsuccessfully litigated years ago, they said.

    In a recent court filing, Lance’s lawyers said they uncovered new evidence about the grand jury process through interviews and historical grand jury research conducted in 2018 and 2019. At the time of Lance’s indictment, District Attorney Tim Madison “packed” the grand jury with individuals he knew and who repeatedly served as grand jurors through terms of court, the filing said.

    Madison is no longer DA. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to felony charges for his role in a payroll theft scheme while he was in office. He was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay $40,000 in restitution.

    By allegedly stacking the grand jury, the motion said, Madison deprived Lance of his constitutional right to a fair trial.

    “To countenance this error in even a single capital case undermines the reliability of the death penalty as a reflection of contemporary moral values,” the motion said. A conviction spawned from a tainted grand jury, the motion added, also violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

    Previously, Lance had asked for DNA testing of the state’s evidence against him, a request supported by his son Jessie Lance and daughter Stephanie Cape. Both children have stayed in touch with their father over the past 20 years even though he was convicted of killing their mother.

    Wilson, at the urging of the state AG’s office, denied that request and the Georgia Supreme Court recently declined to hear Lance’s appeal of that ruling.

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    Last meal announced for Georgia inmate scheduled for execution next week

    FORSYTH, Ga. — Donnie Lance, who is scheduled for execution next Wednesday for the 1997 murders of his ex-wife and another man, has chosen his last meal.

    The Georgia Department of Corrections announced Lance's final meal on Thursday - he'll be having two chili steak burgers, french fries, onion rings, mustard, ketchup and a soda, the department said.

    The Jackson County Superior Court ordered Lance's execution Jan. 29. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7 p.m.

    Lance was convicted in 1999 for the murders of his ex-wife Sabrina "Joy" Lance, and Dwight "Butch" G. Wood, Jr.

    According to a Georgia Supreme Court summary of his case, Wood was found shot twice with a shotgun and Lance was found beaten to death, by repeated blows to her face.

    The door to Wood's home had imprints consistent with size 7 1/2 EE Sears "Diehard" work shoes, investigators said, which Donnie Lance denied having any kind of pair of.

    "However, a search of Lance's shop revealed an empty shoe box that had markings showing it formerly contained shoes of the same type and size as those that made the imprints on Wood's door, testimony by Sears personnel showed that Lance had purchased work shoes of the same type and size and had then exchanged them under a warranty for a new pair, and footprints inside and outside of Lance's shop matched the imprint on Butch Wood's door," the Supreme Court summary says.

    Investigators also found an unspent shotgun shell that matched the ammunition used to kill Wood in a grease pit at Lance's shop.

    A man named Joe Moore also testified that he visited Lance at his shop the morning before the bodies were found, and that Lance told him "that bi***," referring to Sabrina Lance, would not be coming to clean his house that day.

    Moore also testified Lance told him, of Wood, "his daddy could buy him out of a bunch of places, but he can't buy him out of Hell."

    Moore said Lance also told him both people were dead.

    If executed, Lance will be the 53rd inmate put to death by lethal injection, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.

    Jimmy Fletcher Meders was scheduled for lethal injection last week, but the State Board of Pardons and Paroles commuted his sentence hours before he was set to die.

    https://www.11alive.com/mobile/artic...4-e41c3d979bd0
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    Lawyers ask parole board to spare condemned man's life

    ATLANTA (AP) - A Georgia man convicted of killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend shouldn’t be executed, his lawyers argue, citing the additional pain it will cause his children, evidence of brain damage not heard by the jury that sentenced him to die and his model behavior in prison.

    Donnie Cleveland Lance, 66, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday. He was convicted and sentenced to die for the November 1997 killings of Sabrina “Joy” Lance and Dwight “Butch” Wood Jr. in Jackson County, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta.

    The State Board of Pardons and Paroles, the only authority in Georgia that can commute a death sentence, plans to hold a closed-door clemency hearing Tuesday. The board on Monday declassified a clemency application filed by Lance’s lawyers.

    Stephanie Lance Cape and Jessie Lance, the now-adult children of Donnie and Joy Lance, have submitted a letter to the parole board and plan to ask for mercy at Tuesday’s hearing. Donnie Lance has maintained his innocence and his children have doubts about his guilt, but their plea for clemency doesn’t depend on those doubts, the application says.

    “We’ve spent our whole lives with this huge gaping hole in our hearts, but at least we’ve had dad at our sides,” they wrote in the letter, which is quoted in the application. “It’s almost impossible to imagine that it could get worse.”

    The clemency application details the close contact the pair have maintained with their father during his more than two decades on death row, relying on his advice and support. They acknowledge that their mother’s family and Wood’s family have also suffered enormously as a result of the killings.

    “With us being the exception, everyone has lost everything they are going to lose from this nightmare,” they wrote. “We have lost just as much, but somehow, we still have more to lose - and that’s being taken away even as we sit here now. We’ll continue to pray this final loss doesn’t come to pass.”

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    Board taking too long. Rip death penalty. Hello to social justice. This is making me want a time machine for the 90s and the 2000s.

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    I think this one is a go. I really don't think clemency will be granted for Lance.

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    Last edited by NanduDas; 01-28-2020 at 06:27 PM.
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    Good thing that happened

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    Just curious as to why you feel invested in this?
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    I wish all the states would publicly release the clemency petitions. I think only Georgia and Ohio do.

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    He probably feels invested because Lance is a sick piece of subhuman trash and emblematic for why we should have capital punishment.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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