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    Nicholas Cody Tate - Georgia Death Row


    Katelyn, 3


    Chrissie Williams, 26


    Dustin Wade Tate


    Chad Everette Tate


    Nicholas Cody Tate


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    Tate was sentenced to death in 2005 for the 2001 murder of Chrissie Williams and her three-year-old daughter Katelyn during an attempt to steal meth.

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    Ga. top court upholds death sentence in slayings

    The Georgia Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the death sentences for a man who pleaded guilty to malice murder in the killings of a mother and her 3-year-old daughter.

    Lawyers for Nicholas Tate had asked the court to overturn his sentences for the 2001 killings of Chrissie Williams and her daughter, Katelyn, in Paulding County.

    Attorneys for Tate said the trial court failed to prove aggravating circumstances. They said even though Tate pleaded guilty to kidnapping and child molestation, the evidence was insufficient to support the plea.

    Tate was 21 at the time of the killings. His brothers Dustin Tate, 18 at the time and Chad, who was 15, received lesser sentences.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    too bad he can only be executed ONCE. His brothers should be executed also. on the same day would be nice!!!

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    Too bad. Tate is obviously scared to die or he would've taken his punishment.

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    I should have posted a poll on this execution. I really thought he was going to follow through. My thoughts are with the family and friends of Chrissie Williams and her daughter Katelyn.

    This is one of those cases that the lengthy appeals process that some states allow nauseates me. My fear is Tate will request an execution date after every denied appeal and continue to torture this family.

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    Did he already pick out his last meal? You know sometimes they do that days before the execution.

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    In today's US Supreme Court orders, Tate's petition for a writ of certiorari was DENIED.

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    Execution date set

    A Paulding County judge has set an execution date for a man condemned to die for killing a mother and her 3-year-old daughter.

    Nicholas Cody Tate is to be executed by lethal injection between Jan. 31 and Feb. 7, according to an order signed Thursday by Chief Superior Court Judge Tonny Beavers. The Department of Corrections will set the actual time and date of Tate's execution.

    Tate was condemned to die for killing Chrissie Williams, who was found bound to a bed with handcuffs and duct tape and had been shot in the head. Her daughter, Katelyn, was found on the floor of another room, and her throat had been slit. The crimes occurred Dec. 11, 2001.

    Tate's case is highly unusual. His direct appeal was upheld in June 2010 by the Georgia Supreme Court, yet he has not challenged his conviction and sentence through a petition of habeas corpus, which is routine in most all death-penalty appeals. After direct appeals are exhausted, a condemned inmate then files his or her first habeas corpus petition in Butts County, home to Georgia's death row. If that fails, a habeas corpus petition is then filed in federal court.

    Tate pleaded guilty to the murders in 2005 and waived a trial by jury. After a sentencing hearing, the trial judge then sentenced Tate to death.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/exec...r-1301026.html

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    Judge Rejects Appeal from Condemned Man's Brother

    A Georgia judge on Thursday rejected an appeal by a death row inmate's brother that would postpone the condemned man's scheduled execution next week.

    The order, signed by Butts County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson, clears the way for Nicholas Cody Tate to be executed on Tuesday for the 2001 murders of a Dallas, Ga., woman and her 3-year-old daughter.

    Death penalty cases typically take well over a decade to work through the appeals process, but Tate has refused to challenge his conviction and death sentence through habeas corpus appeals. His brother, Dustin Wade Tate, sought to file an appeal on his behalf but Thursday's order concludes he wasn't able to prove the inmate was "incompetent."

    The inmate's current and former attorneys won't comment on why Tate, who is 31, won't let them file the appeal, although a transcript from a 2009 hearing highlights his thoughts on the process.

    "You caught me red-handed," he said during the hearing, when he waived his motion for a new trial. "None of my rights were violated ... I choose to waive any and all future appeals."

    According to court records, Nicholas Tate and two of his younger brothers, Dustin and Chad, purchased ammo, duct tape and knives at a local sporting goods store in December 2001 and then plotted to use the weapons to burglarize the home of Chrissie Williams, who they believed had a stash of drugs and money.

    When they arrived at the home, Chrissie's 3-year-old daughter Katelyn answered the door, and chaos ensued. The men tried to knock Chrissie out with a stun gun, but when she didn't lose consciousness they taped her mouth and eyes shut and handcuffed her hands to a bed.

    They moved Katelyn to another room, where Nicholas Tate removed her pajamas and sexually assaulted her. Nicholas Tate, who prosecutors say was the plot's ringleader, ordered Chad to silence the girl because she recognized him. Chad Tate unsuccessfully tried to strangle her with a telephone cord, and he then used Nicholas' knife to slit her throat.

    Dustin Tate fled the house in fear. Nicholas Tate put a seat cushion over Chrissie's head as she lay bound to the bed, firing one shot through the pillow to kill her.

    The three brothers then fled Georgia and traveled to Mississippi where they captured a 23-year-old woman from a gas station where she worked and forced her into an SUV. The three later released the woman but kept her car as they sped toward Oklahoma.

    The Tate brothers abandoned their weapons at a motel and drove to El Reno, which is about 30 miles outside of Oklahoma City. They then contacted their parents in Dallas, Ga., who helped them negotiate their surrender to police.

    Nicholas Tate pleaded guilty to murder charges in November 2005 and was sentenced to death a month later. His brothers also admitted to committing the violence. They are serving life sentences in prison, and Dustin Wade Tate sent the appeal this month on his behalf.

    Nicholas Tate filed a motion for a new trial in 2006, but three years later he had a change of heart. That's when he said he wanted to waive all future appeals, and a trial judge accepted his request, noting that he was coherent and articulate.

    His attorneys went ahead with a direct appeal, asking the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn the sentence. Among the arguments they made was that the punishment was disproportionate because neither of his two brothers were sentenced to death.

    But the court's June 2010 ruling rejected that argument along with the others in upholding the death sentence. The court ruled that Chad Tate, who was 15 at the time of the killings, wasn't eligible for the death penalty and that Dustin Tate's life was spared because he was neither the killer nor the "driving force" behind the victims' deaths.

    http://www.13wmaz.com/news/georgia/a...d-Mans-Brother

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    I am pretty sure this is a first. I have never heard of someone who is convicted of the same crime pressing for appeals of a co-defendant. Usually it's the mother of the condemned, or the ACLU filing appeals on inmates behalf who have dropped appeals.

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