{"id":2202801,"date":"2024-03-20T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-plans-its-first-execution-in-years-lawyers-say-the-inmate-is-intellectually-disabled\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T20:19:32","slug":"georgia-plans-its-first-execution-in-years-lawyers-say-the-inmate-is-intellectually-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-plans-its-first-execution-in-years-lawyers-say-the-inmate-is-intellectually-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia is set to carry out its first execution in years, despite claims from lawyers that the inmate is intellectually disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-plans-its-first-execution-in-years-lawyers-say-the-inmate-is-intellectually-disabled%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2202801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Georgia Man Faces Execution for \u20641993 Murder<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A Georgia man condemned \u2063for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-afghan-allies-not-out-of-afghanistan-state-department-says\/\" title=\"Majority of Afghan Allies Not Out of Afghanistan, State Department Says\">brutal killing<\/a> of his former girlfriend thirty years ago is poised to meet his fate this Wednesday, marking the state&#8217;s\u2064 initial execution \u200cin \u200dover four years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Conviction and Controversy<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Willie \u200dJames Pye, 59, \u200cwas found guilty of \u200bmurder and other offenses following the November 1993 \u200dslaying of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. The lethal injection, \u2062employing pentobarbital,\u2062 is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Jackson State Prison.<\/li>\n<li>In a\u2063 plea for clemency, Pye&#8217;s attorneys criticized his 1996 trial \u2062as antiquated and highlighted \u200cdeficiencies \u200din the local public defender system during the 90s.<\/li>\n<li>Despite assertions of Pye&#8217;s \u200dintellectual\u200b disability, with an\u2064 IQ\u200d of 68, and meeting \u2064criteria \u200bfor exemption from execution, \u2062the Georgia Parole Board\u2064 denied\u200c clemency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-grammy-ceo-sued-for-alleged-sexual-assault\/\" title=\"Former Grammy CEO Sued For Alleged Sexual Assault\">citing insufficient evidence<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Tragic \u2062Sequence of Events<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pye, along \u200bwith Chester Adams and\u200b a 15-year-old, conspired to rob Yarbrough&#8217;s companion but encountered\u200c her alone with\u2063 her infant\u2062 at her \u200bresidence.<\/li>\n<li>After coercing \u200ctheir way in, they plundered her belongings, abducted her, and subjected her to unspeakable horrors before terminating her life\u200d in cold\u200d blood.<\/li>\n<li>Yarbrough&#8217;s body was discovered shortly after, leading to the \u2063arrests \u2064of Pye and his accomplices, \u200cculminating in Pye&#8217;s capital punishment \u200bverdict \u200cin 1996.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-defends-his-presidential-record-during-megyn-kelly-interview\/\" title=\"Trump defends his record in Megyn Kelly interview.\">ongoing \u200clegal battles<\/a> and appeals, Pye&#8217;s\u200c impending execution serves as a\u2063 stark reminder\u200b of the irrevocable\u2064 consequences of a senseless act of violence committed years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Atlanta, a Georgia man, Willie James Pye, 59, convicted of murdering his former girlfriend in 1993, faces execution on Wednesday. This would be the state&#8217;s first execution in over four years. Pye was convicted of murder and related charges in the killing of Alicia Lynn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2634,"featured_media":2202802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24060765888035-1024x682.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24060765888035-1024x682.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}