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    Timothy W. McCorquodale - Georgia Execution - September 21, 1987




    Summary of Offense: In 1974, raped, tortured and then broke the neck of a 17-year-old girl he had seen talking to a black man. Both the slayer and the victim were white.

    Victim: Donna Marie Dixon

    Time of Death: 7:23 p.m.

    Manner of execution: Electric Chair

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    September 22, 1987

    Slayer Executed in Georgia; High Court Rejects Appeals

    JACKSON, Ga., Sept. 21 — Timothy W. McCorquodale was electrocuted this evening for the 1974 torture and murder of a runaway teen-age girl, a murder he said he could not remember.

    Mr. McCorquodale, the fifth man to be executed in Georgia this year, was pronounced dead at 7:23 P.M., according to a prison system spokesman, John Siler.

    The 35-year-old slayer was convicted of raping, torturing and then breaking the neck of a 17-year-old girl he had seen talking to a black man. Both the slayer and the victim were white.

    A request for clemency from the state Board of Pardons and Paroles was rejected today at mid-afternoon, shortly after the United States Supreme Court, on a 6-to-2 vote, turned down one of the two appeals before it. High Court Rejects Appeal

    Later today, by the same vote, the Court rejected Mr. McCorquodale's final appeal, a challenge to the refusal Sunday of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to stay the execution.

    Mr. McCorquodale was the 93d prisoner to be put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court cleared the way for states to resume capital punishment in 1976.

    He was sentenced to die for the slaying of Donna Marie Dixon, a runaway from Newport News, Va., who had gone to ''the Strip,'' a rough section of midtown Atlanta, which several years before had housed the city's hippie community.

    The parole board chairman, Wayne Snow, said that on Friday the panel received a letter from Mr. McCorquodale in which ''he does show considerable remorse for what he's done.''

    Nevertheless, Mr. Snow said the board had viewed the killing as ''one of the most heinous crimes committed in the state'' and had decided against commuting the death sentence for that reason. Circumstances of Crime

    Witnesses at his trial said Mr. McCorquodale became enraged when he saw Miss Dixon speaking with a black man in a bar near the Strip.

    According to witnesses, Mr. McCorquodale and another man took Miss Dixon to the apartment of a girlfriend of Mr. McCorquodale's, where they raped her, tortured her for two hours and tried to strangle her with a nylon cord. When that failed, evidence showed, Mr. McCorquodale broke her neck with his hands.

    Her nude body, stuffed into a box, was dumped in suburban Clayton County.

    The case prosecutor, Joe Drolet, said the other man involved in the killing was never found.

    In 1976, a state psychiatrist reported that Mr. McCorquodale could not remember Miss Dixon's murder. ''I cannot believe that I would do them things,'' he was quoted as saying. ''I just don't believe I could do it.''

    http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/22/us...s-appeals.html

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