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Thread: Gregory Paul Lawler - Georgia Execution - October 19, 2016

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    A death warrant has 7 days to allow for appeals or in case of equipment malfunction. Just a precaution but he goes on the first day the 19th. He killed a peace officer and we take this personal. BLUE LIVES MATTER'S !!!!!!

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    Condemned cop killer Greg Lawler has asked for a steak for his last meal on Wednesday

    Condemned cop killer Greg Lawler has asked for a steak for his last meal on Wednesday.

    Lawler is set to be the seventh person Georgia has put to death this year. Before his lethal injection set for 7 p.m. Wednesday he wants to feast on a rib eye steak, a baked potato with sour cream, asparagus, dinner rolls with butter, French onion soup, strawberries, pistachio ice cream and apple juice.

    Lawler was sentenced to die for murdering Atlanta police officer John “Rick” Sowa. Lawler also critically wounded Sowa’s partner, Pat Cocciolone, when he opened fired on the two with an AR-15 moments after the officers had walked Lawler’s intoxicated girlfriend to the apartment on Oct. 12, 1997. He shot them with body armor-penetrating bullets. The two were wearing vests and their guns were still in their holsters when the fell.

    Already Georgia has executed more people this year than in any other year in more than four decades. If his lethal injection is carried out, Georgia will be tied with Texas for having executed more people since Jan. 1 than any other state.

    http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local...st-meal/nsrz8/

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    Lawyers Cite New Autism Diagnosis in Bid to Halt Execution

    Lawyers seeking clemency for a Georgia inmate scheduled for execution this week say a recent autism diagnosis helps explain his actions the night he killed one police officer and wounded another.

    Gregory Paul Lawler is to be put to death Wednesday by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson.

    The 63-year-old was convicted of murder in the October 1997 shooting death of Atlanta police Officer John Sowa. Authorities say Lawler also critically injured Officer Patricia Cocciolone.

    In a clemency application declassified Monday by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, Lawler's attorneys ask the board to halt his execution to consider the diagnosis and its effects. The board, the only Georgia panel authorized to commute a death sentence, has scheduled a clemency hearing Tuesday for Lawler.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/l...ution-42862395
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    "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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    This defense will not work in Georgia, maybe in California where there is a bunch of liberal hearted folks are at. In Georgia you harm law enforcement you pay with your life. #BLUE LIVES MATTER!!!!! And for his last meal enjoy because we're supplying desert.

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    Gasman shame on you this is a proper dinner with the pistachio ice cream is dessert the state is supplying his nightcap. Cheers!!!

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    I will make sure they give him a double shot to make sure he sleeps well.
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    Clemency denied

    ATLANTA – Officials deciding the fate of a Georgia man set to be executed for killing a cop and injuring another have made their decision.

    After a clemency hearing Tuesday morning, the Georgia Parole Board has denied the request by attorneys for Gregory Paul Lawler. Lawler is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

    The 63-year-old was convicted of murder in October 1997 after shooting and killing Atlanta Police officer John Sowa and critically injuring officer Patricia Cocciolone. Prosecutors say Lawler, then 45 years old, shot the officers as they tried to help bring his intoxicated girlfriend home. During testimony a few years later, Lawler claimed that he didn't trust the police and was a victim in the crime, despite evidence to the contrary.

    http://www.11alive.com/news/local/cl...alty/337553324
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    Clemency Denied !!!!! It was a waste of time for this guy. Tomorrow his attorney's will file numerous appeal's tomorrow. Just a waste of time, just get on the gurney and let's get it over with. We need two more before the year is over. BLUE LIVES MATTERS !!!!!!!

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    Georgia would tie for the lead at 7-7. John Battaglia is due on December 7, we have to see if Texas will get rid of this scumbag!!!

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    Inmate's lawyers turn to courts in effort to halt execution

    ATLANTA - A Georgia prisoner who was recently diagnosed with autism should not be put to death, his lawyers argue in court briefs, saying his scheduled execution this week would be unconstitutional.

    Gregory Paul Lawler, 63, is scheduled to die Wednesday by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of murder in the October 1997 shooting death of Atlanta police Officer John Sowa and also critically injured Officer Patricia Cocciolone.

    Lawler's attorneys on Monday asked a judge in Fulton County Superior Court, where he was originally convicted, to halt his execution and grant an emergency request for a new trial. They said the court cannot be confident Lawler would receive a death sentence if jurors were aware that he suffered from autism spectrum disorder.

    In a separate court filing in Butts County, where Georgia's death row is located, his lawyers challenged the constitutionality of executing him. The death penalty "no longer comports with the evolving standards of decency in this State or in the country at large," his lawyers argued. They added that Lawler is ineligible for execution because his autism spectrum disorder "leaves him with diminished capacities that reduce his culpability in a manner akin to intellectually disabled and juvenile offenders" whose execution is barred by law.

    His lawyers also cited his recent diagnosis in a clemency application to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board held a clemency hearing Tuesday before denying Lawler's request. Following its standard practice, the board didn't give a reason for its denial of clemency. It's the only authority in Georgia that can commute a death sentence.

    A clinical neuropsychologist last month diagnosed Lawler with autism spectrum disorder with symptoms that most closely match those of Asperger's syndrome, his lawyers said.

    The disorder has distorted every social interaction in Lawler's life, isolated him from those around him and had a profound and tragic effect on his interaction with Sowa and Cocciolone, his lawyers said. The officers likely didn't understand some of the decisions he made that night, and he misinterpreted the intentions of the officers and felt that he needed to fight for his life, his lawyers said.

    Sowa and Cocciolone were responding to a report of a man hitting a woman the evening of Oct. 12, 1997, and arrived at a parking lot to find Lawler trying to pull his drunk girlfriend to her feet. Lawler quickly left and returned to his nearby town house, and the officers decided to help his drunk girlfriend get home.

    When they knocked on the door, Lawler cursed, yelled and told the officers to leave. Once his girlfriend was inside, he tried to shut the door on them. Sowa put his hand up to keep the door from shutting and said they just wanted to make sure the girlfriend lived there and that she would be safe.

    Lawler grabbed an AR-15 rifle and fired 15 times as the officers fled, using bullets that can penetrate body armor, prosecutors said.

    When other officers responded to Cocciolone's radio distress call, they found Sowa lying near the sidewalk and Cocciolone on the ground in the front yard. Both officers' pistols were still in their holsters.

    The responding officers got Lawler's girlfriend out of the apartment, and Lawler finally surrendered after a six-hour standoff.

    Lawler's execution would be the seventh in Georgia this year, the most in a calendar year in the state since the death penalty was reinstated nationwide in 1976. Georgia executed five inmates last year and in 1987.

    http://m.chronicle.augusta.com/lates...tion#gsc.tab=0
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