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Georgia Supreme Court: State must honor pledge to delay executions
WSB Cox articles via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGeorgia’s Supreme Court says that a state pledge to not execute some inmates until certain...
Georgia Supreme Court overturns convictions against father in son's 2014 hot-car death
Athens Banner-Herald via Yahoo News· 2 years agoATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court reversed the conviction of Justin Ross Harris for murder and cruelty charges related to the death of his young son, Cooper, in a hot car in 2014. Evidence ...
High court rebukes AG Carr for seeking Cobb killer's execution
Marietta Daily Journal, Ga. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDec. 20—The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled unanimously Tuesday that Attorney General Chris Carr's office violated an agreement with defense attorneys when, earlier this year, the office sought ...
Cobb man convicted of stabbing mother to be retried after high court ruling
Marietta Daily Journal, Ga. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNov. 3—The Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled that Damian McElrath, convicted for the 2012 stabbing of his adopted mother at her west Cobb home, can be retried after previous verdicts in the ...
Tuscaloosa native's murder conviction overturned in Georgia hot car death case
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s highest court on Wednesday overturned the murder and child cruelty...
Vacated death penalty for convicted child molester, killer overturned
The Brunswick News, Ga. via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJul. 1—A Glynn County man convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering a 6-year-old is back on death row following a decision by the Georgia Supreme Court that was released this week. The ...
UPDATE: Justin Ross Harris' murder conviction overturned by high court
Marietta Daily Journal, Ga. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJun. 23—The Supreme Court of Georgia has thrown out the 2016 murder conviction of Justin Ross Harris, whose 22-month-old son died two years earlier after being left in a hot car. In a 6-3 vote ...
Georgia readies to resume executions after a 4-year pause brought by COVID, legal agreement
WJBF Augusta via Yahoo News· 3 months agoATLANTA (AP) — An execution scheduled for next week would be the first in Georgia in more than four...
High court grills attorney general's office over Presnell execution
Marietta Daily Journal, Ga. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 21—ATLANTA — Lawyers from the office of Attorney General Chris Carr were grilled Tuesday by the Supreme Court of Georgia over their conduct in seeking to carry out the death sentence of ...
Georgia Supreme Court rejects review of Oakwood man's child porn conviction
The Times, Gainesville, Ga. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 23—The Supreme Court of Georgia has denied hearing a case involving an Oakwood man's child porn conviction. Adam Christian Gregorio Mecomber, 27, argued that his case should have been adjudicated ...
