Facts of the Case:
Conner was convicted and sentenced to death for the January 9, 1982 beating death of J.T. White in Telfair County.
Facts of the Case:
Conner was convicted and sentenced to death for the January 9, 1982 beating death of J.T. White in Telfair County.
On July 7, 2011, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated the District Court's judgment denying Conner's habeas petition and remanded the entire case to the District Court for further proceedings.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1573478.html
On August 28, 2013, Conner filed an appeal in the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals over the apparent denial of his habeas petition in Federal District Court.
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir...ca11/13-13928/
On October 27, 2014, oral argument will be heard in Conner's appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/sites/d...s/Calendar.pdf
On April 15, 2015, the Eleventh Circuit DENIED Conner's appeal.
http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opini.../201313928.pdf
Georgia death-row inmate: ‘I’m still kicking’
Death-row inmate John Wayne Conner was eager to talk.
Introducing himself, with a broad grin that displayed several missing teeth, Conner said his name was the same as the “little Terminator.” That would be John Connor, the character in the “Terminator” movies who will lead a human revolt against the machines that have taken over the world.
Conner, 59, has been on death row for 33 years. As for his appeals, they’ve almost run out, he said.
“I’m hanging in there,” he said. “I’m still kicking. In here, that’s a good thing.”
Conner was 25 years old in January 1982 when he got into a drunken fight with a friend and wound up killing him. Conner became angry when his friend told Conner he wanted to sleep with his girlfriend.
Conner was charged with murder by a Telfair County grand jury and the district attorney sought the death penalty. A jury sentenced him to death in 1982.
Thirty-three years later, Conner was eager to talk to his new visitors.
I met Conner during a tour of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson on Thursday. The tour, led by Warden Bruce Chatman, included one of the four pods that house the 80 inmates on death row.
As Conner talked on, Chatman told the group it was time to move on.
“He will engage with you all day,” the warden said. “But there are some here who won’t engage with you at all.”
http://legal.blog.ajc.com/2015/10/16...still-kicking/
On June 23, 2015, Conner's petition for en banc rehearing was DENIED by the Eleventh Circuit.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es\15-7101.htm
In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Conner's petition for writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis was DENIED.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/c...16zor_7lho.pdf
Execution date set for Milan man in 1982 murder
BY LAURA CORLEY
The Macon Telegraph
An execution date has been set for a man who was convicted of a 1982 killing in Telfair County.
John Wayne Conner, of Milan, is set to die by lethal injection on the evening of July 14, according to a news release Friday from the Georgia Attorney General’s office. Conner was sentenced to die by electric chair exactly 34 years ago for the beating death of 29-year-old James T. White.
Conner, then 26, and White rode with friends to a party in Eastman the night of Jan. 9, 1982. After drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana, the group returned to Milan and White and Conner walked off together.
The two began to argue just after midnight following a disagreement. Conner kicked and beat White in the head and face so hard that his teeth, and portions of the attached bones, were broken away from his upper and lower jaws, according to the news release. The trauma caused bleeding in and around White’s brain, which flowed to his lungs, causing him to drown in his own blood, said a doctor who performed the autopsy testified at Conner’s hearing.
White’s body was found the next day in drainage ditch near Milan Elementary School, according to Telegraph archives.
It took a Telfair County jury just over an hour to return the verdict on Conner’s death on July 14, 1982.
In its sentencing in the McRae courtroom, the jury explained that “the offense of murder was outrageous and wantonly vile, horrible and inhumane, and that it did involve depravity of mind, and aggravated battery to the victim.”
http://www.macon.com/news/local/crim...#storylink=cpy
Lawyers File Appeals to stop Execution
Lawyers for a Georgia inmate are asking a judge to let a jury determine whether their client is ineligible for execution because of intellectual disability.
The state plans to execute 60-year-old John Wayne Conner on July 14. He was convicted of beating his friend, J.T. White, to death in January 1982 during an argument after a night of drinking and using marijuana.
Conner's lawyers argue in court filings that Conner is intellectually disabled, so his execution would be unconstitutional. They also say a judge should reconsider arguments that Conner's trial lawyer was ineffective.
State lawyers argue that the issues Conner raises have already been presented and rejected — or could have been presented previously and, therefore, are procedurally barred.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/l...nmate-40256348
"There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche
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