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    Joseph Mulligan - Georgia Execution - May 15, 1987

    Summary of Offense: Convicted for killing Marion Jones Miller, a witness to a murder he committed for the insurance money, in Columbus on Easter morning in 1974.

    Victim: Marion Jones Miller

    Time of Death: 7:25 p.m.

    Manner of execution: Electric Chair

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    May 16, 1987

    GEORGIA MAN EXECUTED AFTER APPEAL TO HIGH COURT

    JACKSON, Ga., May 15 — Joseph Mulligan, who was convicted of killing a witness to a murder he committed for the insurance money, died this evening in Georgia's electric chair.

    Mr. Mulligan died at 7:25 P.M., said John Siler, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections.

    The United States Supreme Court had earlier voted 7 to 2 to reject an emergency request to postpone Mr. Mulligan's execution and a formal appeal challenging his conviction and death sentence. Only Justices William J. Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, who oppose capital punishment under all circumstances, voted to spare the prisoner's life.

    Before he died, Mr. Mulligan visited with his father, his brother, a cousin and his lawyers at the state prison for more than five hours. Other Conviction Overturned

    Mr. Mulligan, 35 years old, was sentenced to die for killing Marion Jones Miller in Columbus on Easter morning in 1974. A death sentence for the slaying the same day of Mr. Mulligan's brother-in-law, Capt. Patrick Doe of the Army, was overturned by state courts.

    Prosecutors said Mr. Mulligan killed Captain Doe, the estranged husband of Mr. Mulligan's sister, to collect on a life insurance policy, and he killed Mrs. Miller to eliminate a witness.

    Mr. Mulligan's appeals were based on claims of various errors by the trial judge and prosecutor, including failure to make it clear that the jury had sole responsibility for imposing the death sentence.

    Much of the prosecution's case rested on the testimony of Timothy Helms, who was granted immunity in return for testifying that Mr. Mulligan shot Captain Doe once in the head and Mrs. Miller four times.

    Mr. Mulligan maintained that he was not guilty. He said he was on a bus traveling from Atlanta to Savannah when the killings occurred.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/16/us...xecuted&st=nyt

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