Georgia
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In 1993 Georgia introduced a moratorium that was lifted...
- News items in the archive
- 191
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Georgia is classified as Abolitionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 191 news items on Georgia, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- AUGUST 15, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
GEORGIA. GRANTED A POSTHUMOUS PARDON TO AN EXECUTED WOMAN
the only woman ever executed in Georgia's electric chair is being granted a posthumous pardon, 60 years after the black maid was put to death for killing a white man she claimed held her in slavery and threatened her life.
- JULY 12, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Robert Conklin, 44, white, was given a lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson
Robert Conklin, 44, white, was given a lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson
- JULY 1, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
GEORGIA. GUILTY PLEA IN NUN KILLING MEANS MAN SPARED DEATH PENALTY
Adrian O. Robinson of Hamilton pleaded guilty in Harris County Superior Court to 19 crimes, avoiding a possible death penalty, with the understanding he will never be released from prison.
- JUNE 20, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence for a Georgia inmate.
the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence for a Georgia inmate.
- JUNE 6, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
the Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence of William Marvin Gulley...
the Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence of William Marvin Gulley who is credited with saving two people's lives, saying his lawyers failed to provide evidence of the good deeds during his trial.
- APRIL 20, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Georgia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- APRIL 4, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Superior Court Judge John Lee Parrott overturned the murder conviction
Superior Court Judge John Lee Parrott overturned the murder conviction
- MARCH 1, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
GEORGIA, USA. MOBLEY EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF PIZZA MANAGER
Stephen Mobley, a man who shot a pizza store manager in the back of the head during a 1991 robbery, was executed in Georgia after courts rejected his last-minute appeals.
- JANUARY 25, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Timothy Carr, 34, was executed
Timothy Carr, 34, was executed
- JANUARY 6, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
De'Kelvin Martin, who murdered a 12-year-old and the boy's great-grand-parents...
De'Kelvin Martin, who murdered a 12-year-old and the boy's great-grand-parents...
- JANUARY 1, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1997.
Georgia abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1997.
- JANUARY 1, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The method of execution is injection.
The method of execution is injection.
- JULY 19, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Eddie Albert Crawford was executed for the 1983 kidnapping,...
Eddie Albert Crawford was executed for the 1983 kidnapping, sexual assault and strangulation of his 2-year-old niece
- JULY 1, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Robert Hicks, white, 47, was put to death by lethal...
Robert Hicks, white, 47, was put to death by lethal injection at Huntsville state prison, in Jackson
- APRIL 29, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Judge John B
Judge John B
- APRIL 21, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Georgia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 7, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Joseph Williams, 30, has been sentenced to death by...
Joseph Williams, 30, has been sentenced to death by a Chatham County Superior Court jury for killing a fellow inmate, Michael Deal, 54
- APRIL 7, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1997.
Georgia abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1997.
- MARCH 10, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
A federal jury in Gainesville sentenced William LeCroy Jr
A federal jury in Gainesville sentenced William LeCroy Jr
- JANUARY 1, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
A bill was presented in 2002 for the forming of a commission...
A bill was presented in 2002 for the forming of a commission on the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia forbids the execution of the mentally retarded...
Georgia forbids the execution of the mentally retarded but allows the execution of juvenile offenders of 17 years and above
- NOVEMBER 4, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
James Willie Brown, 55, was executed for the May 12,...
James Willie Brown, 55, was executed for the May 12, 1975 rape and murder of Brenda Sue Watson
- AUGUST 20, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Apparently alarmed at deteriorating law and order in...
Apparently alarmed at deteriorating law and order in Georgia, the country's president publicly expressed his regret at being forced into abolishing the death penalty
- MAY 6, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Carl Isaacs, 49, was given a lethal injection at the...
Carl Isaacs, 49, was given a lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson for orchestrating the Alday family killings (Ned, Aubrey, Chester, Jerry, Jimmy and Mary Alday) at their home on May 14, 1973
- APRIL 24, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Georgia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 7, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Nine prisoners escaped from a temporary detention center...
Nine prisoners escaped from a temporary detention center in Abkhazia, the Georgian breakaway republic, Deputy Interior Minister Valery Lagvilava said
- MARCH 25, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Larry Eugene Moon was executed for the 1984 murder...
Larry Eugene Moon was executed for the 1984 murder and robbery of 34-year-old Ricky Callahan
- MARCH 24, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a death sentence...
The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a death sentence against Gary Chad Thomason, a burglar convicted of killing 33-year-old Jerry Self
- FEBRUARY 25, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgian MP Elene Tevdoradze denounced in Parliament...
Georgian MP Elene Tevdoradze denounced in Parliament a recent death sentence passed on an ethnic Georgian by the de facto authorities of the separatist region of Abkhazia
- JANUARY 1, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia has signed but not yet ratified Protocol No...
Georgia has signed but not yet ratified Protocol No 13 to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms banning the death penalty in all circumstances