Georgia carries out 8th execution this year

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Kate Brumback, Associated Press

Updated 7:09 pm, Wednesday, November 16, 2016




ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia on Wednesday carried out its eighth execution of 2016, putting to death a man who told a psychiatrist he didn't really want to die but also didn't want to continue living in prison.

Warden Eric Sellers told witnesses Steven Frederick Spears' time of death was 7:30 p.m. following an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. Spears, 54, was convicted of murder in the August 2001 slaying of his ex-girlfriend, Sherri Holland, at her home in Dahlonega, about 65 miles northeast of Atlanta.

Spears didn't make a final statement and declined to have a prayer read. Within minutes of the lethal drug beginning to flow, he took several deep breaths and swallowed a few times before becoming still.

With Spears' death, Georgia has executed more people this year than any other state, including Texas which has executed seven. Three other states — Alabama, Florida and Missouri — have had one execution apiece, for a nationwide total of 18 executions this year.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Georgia-set-to-execute-man-who-killed-his-10617404.php

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Shameful!

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2. Sadly currently living in Georgia, but trying to get out.

I am in the process of looking for work back in California where my sister and her family live. I know it will cost me more to move back west, but this state is one of the worse in the country, only a small portion of Atlanta is tolerable. These conservative idiots, obviously emboldened by Trump, are already proposing a bill to prevent Muslim women from wearing burqa's in public and you can bet that failed religious liberty bill from the last session is right around the corner. This state overwhelming elected Trump and sadly Georgia is going to show the rest of the country just how disgusting a large portion of the people who live here truly are. So very sad, but people get what they payed for and they have made it clear that people like me are no longer welcome here, if we ever were welcome here to begin with. So this is my cue to exit stage left.