for the 2003 murder of two Cobb real estate agents he robbed,
stripped naked and shot in the head inside their Cobb County office.
HIM:
THEM:
Posted on 12/15/2025 9:42:32 PM PST by Red Badger
A convicted murderer who was scheduled to be executed in Georgia this week had his date with death suspended after the state announced Monday that it was considering a new clemency application.
Stacey Humphreys, 52, was preparing to be put to death by lethal injection Wednesday, when the state Board of Pardons and Paroles saidit was ordering the suspension of his execution following an 11th-hour petition.
Filed by the nonprofit Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, the petition, which received more than 1,400 signatures, highlights “profound irregularities that occurred inside the jury room” during Humphreys’ trial.
“The Board has the unique authority to correct what the courts could not: a death sentence that emerged only after a coerced breakdown of deliberations, not through a lawful or unanimous jury decision,” it read.
The jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of life without parole for Humphreys, but bent under one juror’s refusal “to consider anything but death,” the group claims.
They also alleged that the stubborn juror “misrepresented her background during jury selection and used her personal history to pressure others into voting for death.”
If a jury reaches a deadlock during deliberations, under Georgia law they are required to notify the judge and declare a mistrial, according to the Southern Judicial Circuit of Georgia.
The nonprofit argued in death penalty cases, state law would impose a mandatory life sentence if the jury deadlocked, but claimed “the court coerced further deliberations until death was imposed” in Humphreys’ case.
“We also ask the Board to fully consider the extensive mitigating evidence presented at trial, Mr. Humphrey’s lifelong trauma and abuse, and his consistent expressions of remorse. Clemency in this case is not an act of leniency, but an act of justice: a necessary step to restore the sentence the jury intended and to prevent the execution of a man whose death verdict was never legitimately reached,” the group wrote in the petition.
“Granting clemency honors the jury’s intent, upholds fairness, and corrects a grave procedural injustice.”
Last week, a federal judge declined to block Humphreys’ execution. The Supreme Court also previously refused a request to appeal his case.
Humphreys was sentenced to death on Sept. 30, 2007, for the 2003 murders of Cynthia Williams, 33, and Lori Brown, 21, two real estate workers whom he cornered at their company’s sales office.
He forced them to strip naked and fork over their bank card PIN numbers before he shot them both execution-style.
Cynthia Williams, 33, was found dead with a gunshot to the head and her own underwear tied around her neck.
When Humphreys was eventually captured, he bizarrely claimed he didn’t remember killing the women, but then when asked why he fled the scene, said because he knew he “did it.”
“I know it just as well as I know my own name,” he said, according to a press release from Georgia’s Office of the Attorney General.
Humphreys had requested a gluttonous spread for his final meal, chock full of southern classics with a dash of fast-food — which went viral.
The smorgasbord, which would send any reasonable human into a food coma, consisted of barbecue beef brisket, pork ribs, a bacon double cheeseburger, French fries, coleslaw, cornbread, buffalo wings, a meat lover’s pan pizza, and vanilla ice cream, all before washing it down with two lemon-lime sodas, according to a press release from the Georgia Department of Corrections.
It’s unclear if Humphreys’ request was approved, or if it would still be honored if his clemency is denied.
The judge’s original order permitted Humphreys to be executed anytime between Wednesday and Dec. 24.
The post Georgia parole board suspends death row inmate’s execution after last-minute clemency application appeared first on New York Post.
Too bad he got a last meal.
Evil.
Yep.
Not yet he hasn’t.
They must have got the money in the right place.
But he does deserve mercy. He deserves exactly as much mercy as he showed the two women.
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