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    GA has four guys that are all awaiting the Supreme Court now, next year is looking nice.

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    I think Wilson and Tharpe will happen this year. It's a great possibility. Lance is a 50/50.

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    This was heard on the SCOTUS conference of February 15.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/18-6409.html
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Morrow's petition for certiorari.

    Lower ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    Case Nos.: (17-10311)
    Decision date: March 27, 2018
    Rehearing denied: May 22, 2018
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    Georgia sets execution for condemned killer Morrow

    By Bill Rankin
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    An execution date was set Friday for Scotty Morrow, who sits on death row for the 1994 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and another woman in Gainesville.

    The execution is set to be carried out during a seven-day period beginning May 2.

    The last time Georgia carried out an execution was in May 2018, when Robert Earl Butts was put to death by lethal injection. Butts’ was one of two executions carried out in Georgia last year.

    This comes at a time when Georgia juries are declining to impose death sentences and when district attorneys are seeking it far less frequently. It has now been more than five years since a defendant in Georgia received a death sentence.

    Hall County prosecutors said Morrow went to the home of Ann Young to ask her to reconcile with him. When she and two of her friends turned Morrow away, he pulled a 9 mm handgun and fired, they said. Young and Tonya Woods were shot in the head and died. The second friend also was shot but survived.

    Morrow’s appeals are all but exhausted. In February, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to have his appeals raised in federal court.

    https://www.ajc.com/news/local/georg...Mj5meCJdce6CM/
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    Another article relating to this:

    Georgia set to execute man who killed 2 women in 1994

    ATLANTA – A man who killed his ex-girlfriend and another woman nearly 25 years ago is the first death row prisoner set to be executed in Georgia this year.

    Scotty Garnell Morrow, 52, is scheduled to die May 2 at the state prison in Jackson, state Attorney General Chris Carr announced Friday.

    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.

    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 a 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.

    "It was in immediate reaction to Ms. Woods's comments that (Morrow) fired, shooting first at Ms. Woods. The entire crime was complete within moments," Morrow's lawyers wrote. "In short, Mr. Morrow's crime was spontaneous and his mental state at the time of the crime was compromised."

    His trial attorneys failed to adequately investigate his childhood, so jurors didn't hear about years of abuse and bullying Morrow experienced as a child that left him tormented and unprepared to function in a healthy relationship, his post-conviction attorneys wrote.

    If his trial attorneys had done a proper investigation, they could have proven that Morrow "was a genuinely nice guy who, because of the psychological pain of his past, snapped," his lawyers argued.

    Morrow's execution date was set after the Superior Court of Hall County, where he was convicted, filed an order Friday setting a seven-day window for his execution. That window stretches from noon on May 2 to noon on May 9.

    Georgia uses an injection of compounded pentobarbital, a sedative, to execute condemned prisoners.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/georgia-s...-women-in-1994

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    Huh. I genuinely thought Lance would be first. Well, here opens the floodgates!
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    Morrow is a definite go in my opinion. As it is a twofer alongside Texas, i'm doubting on Dexter Johnson not going to Huntsville. Gut feeling, it will get stayed by the TCCA.
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    Lance should have been first. But once Morrow is done the rest will follow quickly. This means Georgia has a good supply of drugs. Let the good times roll. Tharpe, Lance and Wilson should follow.

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    GA is the best in setting death warrants. The execution is scheduled a mere 3 weeks before execution day. Fast, precise, and finished, just like it should be everywhere else.

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