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    Not to mention it's probably less taxing on all involved (including the inmate). I'd rather get it over with in 3 weeks than spend months or years under the shadow of a fixed death date.
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    April 24, 2019

    Clemency hearing scheduled for man sentenced to die for Hall murders

    The State Board of Pardons and Paroles will meet Wednesday, May 1 to consider clemency for a man convicted almost 25 years ago of the murders of two women in Hall County.

    Scotty Garnell Morrow, 52, is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. May 2 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

    Morrow was convicted of murder in the fatal shootings of his ex-girlfriend Barbara Ann Young and her friend Tonya Woods at Young’s Gainesville home in December 1994. A third woman was also shot but survived.

    Lawyers for Morrow have said the killings were “spontaneous and emotionally-charged” and that he shouldn’t have been sentenced to die.

    The board will have three options after the meeting: Commute Morrow’s sentence to life imprisonment, deny clemency or issue a stay on the execution for a maximum of 90 days.

    If the sentence is commuted, the board also can choose whether Morrow would have the possibility of parole.

    In a 1995 court filing regarding the death penalty, then Northeastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Lydia Sartain wrote “the offense of murder of Barbara Ann Young was outrageously and wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture and depravity of mind.”

    Morrow and Young began dating in June 1994, but she broke up with him that December because of his abusive behavior, according to a Georgia Supreme Court summary of the case. Morrow called Young on Dec. 29, 1994, and she told him to leave her alone, the summary says. Young was in her kitchen with two friends and two of her children when Morrow showed up a short time later and the pair argued.

    Woods told Morrow to leave, saying Young didn’t want anything to do with him anymore. Morrow yelled at her and pulled out a handgun and began shooting, hitting Woods in the abdomen and severing her spine, the summary says.

    Morrow also shot Young’s other friend, LaToya Horne, in the arm.

    Young ran from the kitchen. Morrow ran after her and kicked open the door to her bedroom, where he beat her head and face and then followed her into the hallway, grabbed her by the hair and fired the fatal shot into her head, the summary says.

    Young’s 5-year-old son was hiding in a nearby bedroom and saw Morrow kill his mother, the summary says.

    Morrow then returned to the kitchen, where he fired a fatal shot under Woods’ chin and then shot Horne in the face and arm, the summary says. He cut the telephone line and fled.

    Young and Woods died from their injuries, and Horne was severely wounded but managed to leave the house to seek help.

    Morrow was arrested within hours. He confessed and the gun used in the killings was found hidden in his yard.

    Attorneys representing Morrow in post-conviction proceedings challenged the constitutionality of his sentence in a petition filed in federal court in 2012.

    “The death penalty is rarely sought — let alone obtained — in response to spontaneous and emotionally-charged crimes like that committed by Mr. Morrow,” they wrote.

    When Morrow went to Young’s home, he pleaded with her to get back together. He pulled out his gun when Woods mocked him, saying Young had used him for money and companionship while her “real man” was in prison, the petition says.

    https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/new...-hall-murders/
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    What this convicted killer ordered for his last meal

    Two chicken-and-waffle meals, a pint of ice cream and buttered popcorn washed down with a large lemonade are just a few of the items on a man’s last meal before his scheduled execution Thursday.

    Scotty Garnell Morrow, 52, is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. May 2 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson for killing two women in 1994 in Hall County.

    “Morrow requested a last meal of a hamburger with mayonnaise, two chicken and waffle meals, a pint of butter pecan ice cream, a bag of buttered popcorn, two all-beef franks, and a large lemonade,” according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.

    Morrow was convicted of murder in the fatal shootings of his ex-girlfriend Barbara Ann Young and her friend Tonya Woods at Young’s Gainesville home in December 1994. A third woman was also shot but survived.

    The State Board of Pardons and Paroles will meet Wednesday, May 1 to consider clemency for Morrow.

    https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/new...ans-last-meal/
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    So is this guy simply not going to file in court? Or is he going to wait and spam the courts tomorrow, assuming clemency gets denied.
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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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    It's a old trick by Georgia deathrow inmates. Attorneys for inmates on deathwatch flood the courts with senseless appeals. They also inform the condemned not to drink fluids makes it harder to locate a vein. Its hail Mary move as the clock winds down. This will start about 10:00am tomorrow starting with the state court in Jackson Georgia and it moves on to 11th circuit court of appeals and several more to SCOTUS. This will delay the 7:00pm excution time.

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    I don’t know why they don’t just give in. It’s not like they’re gonna escape it in Georgia unless they can stall for a whole week.
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    It's just tradition to stall. He has a better chance of catching OJ Simpson dating black women than getting clemency.

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    Georgia man’s lawyers make final efforts to spare his life

    By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

    As his scheduled execution nears, lawyers for a Georgia man are asking the state parole board to spare his life and challenging the constitutionality of his sentence in court.

    Scotty Garnell Morrow, 52, is set to be put to death Thursday at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend Barbara Ann Young and her friend Tonya Woods at Young’s Gainesville home in December 1994. A third woman was also shot but survived.

    In a petition filed Tuesday in Butts County Superior Court, his lawyers argued his death sentence is unconstitutional because it was improperly imposed.

    If jurors want to recommend a death sentence for a murder conviction, they must find that at least one aggravating factor specified in the law applies. A death sentence must also be unanimous.

    In Morrow’s case, jurors indicated on the verdict form that the state had proved six aggravating factors for Woods’ murder and four in Young’s. Those included findings that both murders were “outrageously and wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman.”

    The verdict form also clearly indicates a death sentence recommendation but doesn’t specify which murder conviction jurors believed merited the death sentence.

    A couple of weeks after the sentencing, in July 1999, the judge held a hearing and said he recognized the judgment “was not fully compliant with the statute.” He entered a new order imposing a death sentence specifically for the first count of the indictment, Young’s murder.

    Morrow’s attorneys argue that’s unconstitutional because the court, rather than the jury, determined the death penalty was merited for a specific murder.

    The verdict form was flawed, intermingling potential aggravating factors for the two murders and providing a single line to indicate the sentence but failing to indicate a specific sentence for each of two murder counts, Morrow’s lawyers wrote.

    There’s no indication of a unanimous jury decision that death was the right sentence for either of the murders, they argue. It’s possible that some jurors may have thought death was appropriate for Young’s murder but not for the murder of Woods and vice versa.

    The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution requires a jury, not a judge, to make a unanimous decision to sentence someone to death, meaning Morrow’s sentence is unconstitutional, his lawyers argue.

    Morrow’s lawyers are asking a judge to delay his execution to give the court an opportunity to consider these arguments.

    Lawyers for the state argue that these claims have already been raised and rejected by courts and, therefore, are procedurally barred because Morrow’s lawyers haven’t shown new facts or law that would overcome that barrier. But even if the arguments weren’t procedurally barred, state lawyers argue, Morrow’s death sentence isn’t unconstitutional.

    “The record clearly establishes that the jury recommended at least one death sentence for Morrow’s murders,” they wrote.

    Having found both murders “wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman,” there’s no reasonable probability jurors “would have rescinded their death sentence and given (Morrow) life if asked to clarify their death sentence,” state lawyers argue.

    Morrow killed Woods and Young on Dec. 29, 1994, when he went to Young’s home to try to win her back. Woods told him to leave, saying Young had just been using him for money and companionship while her “real man” was in prison. An inability to properly process and express emotions resulting from a violent childhood caused him to snap, his lawyers wrote in a clemency petition.

    In the petition, Morrow’s lawyers ask the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider beatings and rape that Morrow suffered as a child, evidence the trial jury never heard, and to spare his life. They also said Morrow feels deep remorse for the pain and loss he caused the Woods and Young families and is particularly devastated at having deprived Young’s children of their mother.

    They also argued that emotionally fueled, spontaneous killings are rarely punished by the death penalty, and commuting his sentence to life in prison, with or without possibility of parole, would bring his sentence more in line with those of other people convicted of murder under similar circumstances.

    The parole board, the only authority in Georgia that can commute a death sentence, was holding a closed-door hearing Wednesday to consider his case for clemency.

    Morrow would be the first prisoner executed by Georgia this year.

    http://www.artesianews.com/1717775/g...-his-life.html
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    BREAKING: Clemency denied for Georgia killer

    The State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency tonight to a Gainesville man set to be the first person executed in Georgia this year.

    Scotty Morrow, convicted in the 1994 murders of his ex-girlfriend and another woman, presented a compelling case for commutation Wednesday morning, with testimonials ranging from his own son to a prison guard who got to know the condemned man on death row.

    The five-person board does not give a reason for its decision. Members vote individually and only the chairman knows how they voted. The decision requires a simple majority.

    Morrow’s execution is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. He would be the 50th person put to death in Georgia by lethal injection.

    https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/...xBhSbvHOPCf3O/
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    Georgia Supreme Court has unanimously denied a stay.

    https://twitter.com/ajccourts/status...573681664?s=19
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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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