Clemency hearing set for Georgia death row inmate
ATLANTA — Representatives seeking clemency for death row inmate John Wayne Conner are to meet with the State Board of Pardons and Paroles at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, the day before Conner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.
Conner received the death sentence, set for 7 p.m. July 14, for the January 1982 murder of James T. White in Telfair County. A jury found Conner guilty of malice murder, armed robbery and motor vehicle theft that July, sentencing him to death. In May 1983, the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed his convictions for malice murder and motor vehicle theft and his death sentence, but reversed his armed robbery conviction.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Conner’s appeal on Feb. 29.
The Parole Board, which has the sole constitutional authority to grant clemency and commute or reduce a death sentence to life with the possibility of parole or to life without the possibility of parole, only considers commutation of a death-sentenced inmate after all judicial avenues of relief appear to have been exhausted.
The meeting is expected to be closed, as authorized by Georgia law, and no public comment will be taken at the meeting nor any other business conducted.
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