Posted on 03/19/2024 2:14:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Georgia man should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled and feels remorse for killing his former girlfriend three decades ago, his lawyers wrote in seeking clemency for him.
Willie James Pye, 59, is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday using the sedative pentobarbital in what would be the state’s first execution in more than four years. Pye was convicted of murder and other crimes in the November 1993 killing of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough.
A clemency hearing is set for Tuesday. In Georgia, those hearings are conducted in secret, with the result announced afterward. “Had defense counsel not abdicated his role, the jurors would have learned that Mr. Pye is intellectually disabled and has an IQ of 68,” Pye's public defenders wrote in their clemency application.
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“Pye had been in an on-and-off romantic relationship with Yarbrough. At the time she was killed, Yarbrough was living with another man. Pye, Chester Adams and a 15-year-old boy had planned to rob that man and bought a handgun before heading to a party in Griffin, prosecutors have said.
The trio left the party around midnight and went to the house where Yarbrough lived, finding her alone with her baby. They forced their way into the house, stole a ring and necklace from Yarbrough and took her with them when they left, leaving the baby alone, prosecutors have said.
They drove to a motel, where they took turns raping Yarbrough and then left the motel with her in the teenager’s car, prosecutors have said. They turned onto a dirt road and Pye ordered Yarbrough out of the car, made her lie face down and shot her three times, according to court filings.”
like having a hang nail, not interested get ready to meet your maker and your judgement
He will someday.
So does going through the woodchipper feet first.
Yes?
Okay.
Let him dance the hemp fandango.
Doesn’t sound like he is capable of suffering from any mental anguish.
I beg to differ. There have been many, many executions in Georgia in the last four years. This just happens to be the first one in that time that is state sponsored and sanctioned.
Let him, in the words of Stephen King, “pay what he owes, that he may be square with the house again.”
It’s probably easy to ‘fail’ and IQ test.
If he feels remorse, he obviously has the mental capacity to understand wrongdoing.
Well, I note that Ms. Yarbrough hasn’t come back to life after Mr. Pye and his low life friends fired several bullets into her after raping her.
He should have moved to hell in 1993.
I am strongly pro death penalty and want it expanded to many other crimes and attached to a narrow window of time for appeals.
The first book I ever read about victims’ rights had a passage about a woman whose husband was brutally murdered. She gathered up the courage to visit the prison where the convicted murderer was held.
As she passed through sections she saw laughing convicts shooting hoops, men lifting weights and doing circuit training and treadmills. Others were watching TV. Some had, at that time, more up to date computers in the library than her company office at that period. She was shaken by it before she even go to the calm and adjusted killer meeting.
What would Margaret Sanger have them do?
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