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    William Boyd Tucker - Georgia Execution - May 29, 1987




    Summary of Offense: Convicted of the murder of 19-year-old Kathleen Parry during a convenience store robbery in Columbus in 1977.

    Victim: Kathleen Parry

    Time of Death: 7:29 p.m.

    Manner of execution: Electric Chair

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    Final Statement: Over five minutes long
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    May 30, 1987

    GEORGIA EXECUTES MAN AFTER DELAYS

    JACKSON, Ga., May 29 — William Boyd Tucker, whose death sentence for killing a pregnant newlywed was postponed twice this week, was executed today in Georgia's electric chair.

    He was pronounced dead at 7:29 P.M., hours after the United States Supreme Court voted 6 to 3 to reject a formal appeal aimed at overturning Mr. Tucker's conviction and his death sentence.

    Mr. Tucker, 31 years old, was convicted of the murder of 19-year-old Kathleen Parry during a convenience store robbery in Columbus in 1977.

    Justices William J. Brennan Jr., Thurgood Marshall and Harry A. Blackmun voted to spare his life. Justice Brennan, in an opinion for all three, said there was a question of whether the judge's instructions to the jury at Mr. Tucker's trial unconstitutionally shifted the burden of proof to the defendant. Visits by Relatives

    Justice Lewis F. Powell, acting only two hours before Mr. Tucker was to have been executed Thursday, granted him a 24-hour stay of execution so the full court could study the appeal.

    Mr. Tucker was initially scheduled to die Wednesday, but he was granted a 24-hour stay by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to give his lawyers time to appeal to the Supreme Court.

    Since Wednesday, a large group of relatives, including Mr. Tucker's mother and stepfather, George and Nancy Horan, have been visiting with him in a holding cell near the death chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center near here.

    The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles earlier denied Mr. Tucker's petition for clemency. Wayne Snow, Chairman of the parole board, said the decision was based on the terror inflicted on Mrs. Parry during the Aug. 20, 1977, robbery and abduction.

    Mrs. Parry had been married two months, and was one-month pregnant.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/30/us...xecuted&st=nyt

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