The following article is from The Donalsonville News, May 1, 2003.
He's Scheduled to be Deceased Tuesday at 7
Carl Isaacs' date with death holding with five days left
The Houston County Superior Court of Perry has ordered the execution of convicted murderer Carl Isaacs, Jr., age 49, and so far as The News can tell at this point, no interruptions or delays have occurred yet, while well aware that this subject is a master of stymieing and aborting such court orders and schedules.
The Georgia court where Isaacs' second trial for six counts of murder was held 15 years ago received word of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to hear Isaacs' latest appeal the first of last week and Judge George Nunn promptly moved and set an execution date and time.
On April 22, the court was instructed to order the execution of Isaacs by lethal injection between high noon on Tuesday, May 6, 2003 and ending seven days later also at noon on Tuesday, May 13, 2003. Judge Nunn immediately scheduled the sentences of guilty of six cruel murders of innocent people to be carried to completion at 7 pm on Next Tuesday, May 5, 2003at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County.
Isaacs was sentenced to death for the May 14, 1973 slayings of six members of the Ned Alday family at their home near Donalsonville. The original death sentences issued here in January 1974 were overturned on appeal. Isaacs was retried in January 1988 and again sentenced to death.
Isaacs, George Dundee and Wayne Coleman who had escaped from a Maryland prison, murdered Ned Alday, Jimmy Alday, Jerry Alday, Chester Alday, Aubrey ALday and Mary Alday. Isaacs' younger brother, Billy Isaacs, also present during the murders, was sentenced to 20 years for armed robbery and 20 years for burglary. Billy Isaacs was released from prison in 1993. Dungee and Coleman, originally sentenced to death, were later resentenced and are currently serving life sentences.
If nothing happens to change the schedule, if Isaacs has finally exhausted his bag of tricks and schemes to avoid his date with death, he would become the 10th subject put to death by lethal injection in Georgia. This method of death was adopted by the Georgia Legislature several years ago, after opponents of the death penalty were victorious in their battle against Old Sparky, aka the electric chair.
Witnesses will be at the prison to see to it that the monster is finally moved to his proper destination, including several from this county where his first trial was held, only to be thrown out by a fumbling 11th circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in 1985. The News will be among the news disseminators attending the execution in order to share it with the people of its coverage area, naturally including members of the Alday family.
Spelling and other errors are mine. Despite the tone of this article, The News took great care in 1973-74 to report the facts and the facts only to help prevent an excuse for change of venue. Thirty years waiting for justice to be served no doubt has contributed to this change of tone.
I hope that as of 7:05 p.m. today, this evil creature is history.