Sandy
10-30-2019, 07:52 PM
Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. But the Georgia Supreme Court issued a stay of execution, saying the execution order "may be void."
In a legal filing Wednesday, lawyers for the state conceded the order is void. They urged the court to rule quickly on an outstanding appeal application filed by Cromartie's lawyers, as they plan to seek a new execution warrant.
Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border. The state says Cromartie also shot and seriously injured another convenience store clerk a few days earlier.
Cromartie insists he didn't shoot either clerk. His attorneys last year asked the trial court to order DNA testing on evidence and requested a new trial. Southern Judicial Circuit Senior Judge Frank Horkan rejected those requests last month, and Cromartie's lawyers on Oct. 11 asked the state Supreme Court for permission to appeal that ruling.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html
What does it matter if the order was "void"? The nigger was convicted. It was sentenced. It had its appeals.
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
In a legal filing Wednesday, lawyers for the state conceded the order is void. They urged the court to rule quickly on an outstanding appeal application filed by Cromartie's lawyers, as they plan to seek a new execution warrant.
Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border. The state says Cromartie also shot and seriously injured another convenience store clerk a few days earlier.
Cromartie insists he didn't shoot either clerk. His attorneys last year asked the trial court to order DNA testing on evidence and requested a new trial. Southern Judicial Circuit Senior Judge Frank Horkan rejected those requests last month, and Cromartie's lawyers on Oct. 11 asked the state Supreme Court for permission to appeal that ruling.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html
What does it matter if the order was "void"? The nigger was convicted. It was sentenced. It had its appeals.
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.