Man seeks clemency to avoid what could be Georgia's first execution in more than 4 years

MSN ^ | 3/18 | Jeff Martin

[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.

[NWFree]

He should explain it to God

[napscoordinator]

I’m for the death penalty for sure, but this guy is 59 years old and could suffer in jail another ten and then kill him. Jail has to be awful.

[bigbob]

If he’s smart enough to kill someone…
Besides, with that IQ he could be President.

[Bullish]

So what, his victim now has an IQ of zero, as in no functioning brain at all. He should have been executed long long ago.

[dfwgator]

and feels remorse for killing his former girlfriend three decades ago

"Well, ok then!"

[Fido969]

He “feels remorse”.

Over raping and killing his ex-girlfriend.

Well, there you go.

[Gay State Conservative]

Couldn’t care less how remorseful he might be...or if his IQ is 8 rather than 68.

[CodeToad]

When I hear death penalty cases letting the murderers live 30 years the more I am all for vigilantism.

[Rinnwald]

The man is aware enough to mount a defense against execution, therefore he is aware enough to be executed.

Catch 23.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Bye Bye Pye.

[antidemoncrat]

Maybe he should now self identify as a woman who was suffering from PMS when he/she kill his significant other who was a self identifying as a man and wouldn’t help with th dishes. Who knows. In this DEI infected country it might work.

[SkyDancer]

He goes to sleep. How did he kill his victim and what did she go through?

[Magic Fingers]

“Had defense counsel not abdicated his role, the jurors would have learned that Mr. Pye is intellectually disabled and has an IQ of 68,”

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AKA “The Biden Defense”.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#8: “Couldn’t care less how remorseful he might be...or if his IQ is 8 rather than 68.”

‘68 IQ’ in his neighborhood that makes him a bloody Einstein, relatively speaking.

[FoxInSocks]

[The trio] 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.

[NorthMountain]

How did he kill his victim and what did she go through?

He and two of his buddies took turns raping her, then shot her thrice in the back.

Hanged, drawn, and quartered seems about right.

[Fai Mao]

I thought Blacks didn’t like to have IQ measured?

[MplsSteve]

He’ll die a lot more peacefully than his victim did.

Adios Scumbag!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

His IQ is higher than the average IQ for sub-Saharan Africa.