The state of Georgia on Wednesday executed death row inmate Willie Pye, who was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1993 murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough.
The execution – Georgia’s first in more than four years – was carried out by lethal injection at 11:03 p.m. at a prison in Jackson, about 50 miles south of Atlanta, the Georgia Department of Corrections said in a news release. Pye did not make a final statement, the release said.
Pye, 59, was put to death after the US Supreme Court denied his final appeals late Wednesday. In a clemency petition and various court filings, Pye and his attorneys had argued for his life to be spared, citing an intellectual disability, a troubled upbringing and ineffective assistance of counsel.
How’s this for some irony-
Pye’s execution marks Georgia’s first since January 2020, according to the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center. Executions were halted there as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the American Bar Association has said.
“We have to pause executions. We might kill someone!”
it only makes sense when you realize the death penalty was fought so hard for in order to blame unsolved crimes on the poor, the uneducated, the disabled, the young, the vulnerable, the homeless and the oppressed.
Because cops love killing and they hate genuinely solving crimes and their concept of justice involves violence, death and torture.
case in point: OP
The primary aim of the justice system is to secure convictions. If those who are convicted happen to also be actually guilty of the crimes they are charged with, that’s just gravy.
I don’t know why they bother with the death penalty then when they can just shoot a person whenever they feel like it.
“We have to pause executions. We might kill the wrong someone!”
Ftfy
If he had provided Pye adequate representation, jurors “would have learned that Mr. Pye is intellectually disabled and has an IQ of 68,” his petition said, well below the 100 average.
Pye didn’t have the ability to make many choices in his life, so it’s highly doubtful he chose to kill anyone.
You don’t need to be particularly smart to gang rape and shoot someone. Quite the opposite I would think.
68 is like a child age 9-12. They might learn to take care of themselves, and maybe find a job.
