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    Tollette, Ledford, Brockman, Tharpe, its a few more i have to check my notes when i get to work Monday. I know three more sealed death warrants the ither day when i was in the AG's office.

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    Clemency hearing set for Georgia death row inmate scheduled for execution next week

    The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has scheduled a clemency hearing for a Georgia man who's set for execution next week.

    The board said Tuesday that the clemency hearing for Brian Keith Terrell is scheduled for March 9, a day before he is set to die.

    Prosecutors say Terrell stole 10 checks belonging to 70-year-old John Watson of Covington in June 1992 and signed his own name on some of them. Watson, a friend of Terrell's mother, agreed not to press charges if most of the stolen money was returned. But on the day he was to return the money, prosecutors say Terrell shot and beat Watson to death.

    Georgia corrections officials on Monday postponed the execution of Kelly Renee Gissendaner because of concerns about the lethal injection drug.

    http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/sto...Death-Penalty/
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    Georgia Postpones 2 Executions, Citing ‘Cloudy’ Drug

    The State of Georgia said Tuesday that it would postpone a pair of executions amid concerns about the drug it had intended to use to carry out the sentences.

    The Georgia Department of Corrections said in a statement that “an abundance of caution” had compelled it to defer the planned executions of Kelly Renee Gissendaner, who had been scheduled to be put to death on Monday, and Brian K. Terrell, whose execution was set for next week.

    Ms. Gissendaner was sentenced to death for persuading her boyfriend to murder her husband. Mr. Terrell was convicted in the 1992 murder of a 70-year-old man.

    The announcement came a day after state officials took what legal experts described as the unusual step of abruptly suspending plans for the execution of Ms. Gissendaner because part of Georgia’s supply of pentobarbital had become “cloudy.” The episode had provoked new debate about methods of capital punishment and the state-imposed secrecy that surrounds them.

    “Whether you’re for or against the death penalty, it must give anyone pause about how the death penalty is carried out in this country if we continue to have these kinds of problems,” said Deborah W. Denno, a Fordham University law professor who researches capital punishment.

    The deliberations about Ms. Gissendaner’s execution began to unfold late Monday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, southeast of here, and state officials have revealed little about them.

    “Within hours leading up to the scheduled execution, the execution team performed the necessary checks,” Gwendolyn Hogan, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Corrections, said in a statement. “At that time, the drugs appeared cloudy.”

    In emails on Tuesday, Ms. Hogan, who said a screening of the lethal injection drug had returned results “within the acceptable testing limits,” said state officials consulted a pharmacist before Homer Bryson, the corrections commissioner, elected to postpone the execution.

    In a filing before the United States Supreme Court, lawyers for Ms. Gissendaner, 46, portrayed the state authorities as vacillating and disorganized.

    At about 10:25 p.m., Ms. Gissendaner’s lawyers said, the state notified them that the execution would be postponed by “several days” because a pharmacist deemed the pentobarbital “cloudy.” Minutes later, a lawyer for the state called again “to state the prison was no longer sure which drugs they had examined — ‘this week’s or last week’s’ — and that they were considering proceeding.”

    Ultimately, Ms. Gissendaner’s lawyers wrote, a state official, speaking of the drugs, said the execution had been postponed because “this particular batch just didn’t come out like it was supposed to.” (Georgia obtains its pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy, but under state law, the source of the injection drug is “a confidential state secret.”)

    By Tuesday afternoon, with Ms. Gissendaner’s current death warrant scheduled to expire on Wednesday, Georgia officials had chosen to delay indefinitely the two executions “while an analysis is conducted of the drugs planned for use in last night’s scheduled execution.”

    The announcement was something of a setback for Georgia, which in June was the first state to execute an inmate after last spring’s botched execution of an Oklahoma prisoner. Professor Denno said she suspected the subsequent controversy has weighed on state officials, including those in Georgia, when they planned executions.

    “There’s no question that Oklahoma is looming over all these executions and what states are thinking,” Professor Denno said.

    Ms. Hogan, whose state currently has more than 80 people on its death row, denied on Tuesday that the Oklahoma episode had been a factor in Mr. Bryson’s decision about Ms. Gissendaner’s execution.

    Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, credited the Georgia authorities “for not just pushing ahead blindly,” but he said it appeared that state officials had been unprepared.

    “I’m surprised they didn’t have a backup,” Mr. Dieter said. “Where was the second and third vial that was absolutely clear? They have a long time to prepare for these things, and they should have had some contingencies in place.”

    For Ms. Gissendaner, who has acknowledged her role in her husband’s murder, Monday’s postponement was the second time in less than a week that state officials, not the courts, had decided to put off her execution. She had been scheduled to die last Wednesday, but Georgia officials, citing a winter storm, moved the execution to Monday.

    In the past week, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles has twice refused Ms. Gissendaner’s bids for clemency; the Supreme Court was considering an appeal from her on Monday night when Georgia officials made the decision to delay the execution.

    Ms. Gissendaner’s lawyers did not respond to messages on Tuesday, nor did Daniel J. Porter, the district attorney in Gwinnett County, where Ms. Gissendaner was prosecuted.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us...tely.html?_r=0
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    The next death warrant in Georgia will be for Brian Terrell. Any day the warrant will be unsealed and activated for his execution.

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    Another execution is scheduled in Georgia

    Just hours after Georgia executed a 50-year-old man, an execution date was set for Brian Keith Terrell for the 1992 Newton County murder of an elderly friend of his mother.

    According to District Attorney Layla Zon, the warrant signed Friday, sets Terrell’s execution to be carried out in the seven-day period that starts at noon Dec. 8. Most of the time, the Department of Corrections schedules executions for 7 p.m. the first day of the one-week window specified in the warrant.

    Terrell, now 47, had been free less than two months, having spent 1 1/2 years in prison for robbery, when he stole 10 checks from John Watson and forged them, making some of the out to himself. He took a total of $8,700.

    Watson told Terrell’s mother of the theft and offered not to press charges if he would return the money within two days.

    Instead, on June 22, 1992, Terrell waited outside Watson’s house for the elderly man to leave for dialysis treatment. He shot him a total of four times and beat him so severely about the head and face that one of the broken bones penetrated his brain.

    Thursday night, Marcus Ray Johnson was put to death for the 1994 murder of Anglea Sizemore, a woman he had just met in an Albany bar.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/a...georgia/npR2j/

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    Finally a new date! I love how GA sets dates 2 weeks in advance. They don't mess around. Way better than Ohio's years in advance system.

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    I'm not so sure anymore about the date.. The link doesn't work anymore, and I can't find any other sources reporting on the execution...

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    Sometimes the media outlets get the news before everyone else. When I found an article for Marcus Johnson's execution date there wasn't any other news for a few days. Wait until 6 pm EST on Monday (news people wait until 6 to publish most of their DP stories for some reason). There will probably be more articles about this then.
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    I was just in the State Attorney's office, I know he has a death warrant. I think it's been unsealed and served on him. Have to check on this Monday.

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    Keep up the good work on any information that is upcoming and available.

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