The 15th Execution of 2016
Georgia executed John Wayne Conner on July 14, 2016. He was convicted of
beating a friend to death during an argument after a night of partying more
than three decades ago, according to The Associated Press.
Conner, 60, was put to death by injection of the
barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of
fatally beating his friend J.T. White during an argument after a night of
drinking and smoking marijuana in January 1982.
The execution was the sixth in Georgia this year and the
most in a calendar year in the state since the death penalty was reinstated
nationwide in 1976. Georgia executed five inmates last year and in 1987.
Only five states have carried out death sentences this year
for a total of 14. Aside from the five already put to death in Georgia, six
inmates have been executed in Texas and one each in Alabama, Florida and
Missouri.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Wednesday
declined to grant him clemency. The board is the only entity in Georgia
authorized to commute a death sentence.
The Georgia Supreme Court in a 5-2 decision on Thursday
rejected Conner's appeal of a lower court ruling and declined to halt his
execution. Conner's attorneys had argued he was ineligible for execution
because he's intellectually disabled, that his trial attorney was ineffective
and that executing him after 34 years on death row would amount to
unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.
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