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
- FEBRUARY 15, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The state's highest court has overturned a condemned...
The state's highest court has overturned a condemned killer's sentence, saying other New Jerseyans convicted of similar crimes were not sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 6, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote to the Governor...
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote to the Governor of Georgia [Roy Barnes] urging him to commute the death sentence passed on a British man to imprisonment, [Prime Minister ] Tony Blair disclosed
- JANUARY 24, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Residents and Chechen refugees in Duisi, the largest...
Residents and Chechen refugees in Duisi, the largest village in Georgia's Pankissi Valley have set up a Sharia court to control rising crime
- JANUARY 24, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Ronald Keith Spivey, 62, was pronounced dead at 7:34 p
Ronald Keith Spivey, 62, was pronounced dead at 7:34 p
- JANUARY 1, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia forbids the execution of the mentally retarded...
Georgia forbids the execution of the mentally retarded but does not forbid the execution of juvenile offenders
- JANUARY 1, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
After a legal moratorium on executions, in July 1997,...
After a legal moratorium on executions, in July 1997, as he is empowered to do, President Shevardnadze had commuted the 54 outstanding death sentences to 20-year prison sentences
- DECEMBER 11, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Byron Ashley Parker, 41, died at 7:26 p
Byron Ashley Parker, 41, died at 7:26 p
- NOVEMBER 15, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Fred Marion Gilreath Jr
Fred Marion Gilreath Jr
- NOVEMBER 7, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgian communists spoke in support of restoration...
Georgian communists spoke in support of restoration of death sentence in Georgia at a meeting for Representatives of United Communist Party of Georgia held in Gori, the native town of Ioseb Stalin
- NOVEMBER 6, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Jose Martinez High was pronounced dead at 8:07 p
Jose Martinez High was pronounced dead at 8:07 p
- OCTOBER 25, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Terry Mincey was declared dead at 8:06 at Georgia Diagnostic...
Terry Mincey was declared dead at 8:06 at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison
- OCTOBER 5, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that the use of...
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that the use of the electric chair to execute condemned inmates was unconstitutional and ordered the state to use lethal injection in all future executions
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Foreign Office of the British Government is mounting...
The Foreign Office of the British Government is mounting a legal challenge against the U
- AUGUST 10, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Supreme Court's decision, Petre Gelbakhiani and Irakli...
Supreme Court's decision, Petre Gelbakhiani and Irakli Dokvadze were sentenced to 12 and a half years of imprisonment after a Supreme Court decision
- MAY 4, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Audio tapes describing executions in Georgia were broadcast...
Audio tapes describing executions in Georgia were broadcast nationally by National Public Radio and ABC-News Nightline on May 2, and by Democracy Now! Pacifica national radio on May 3
- APRIL 25, 2001GeorgiaDEATH 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 on April 25, 2001
- MARCH 7, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
William Sallie has again been sentenced to death for...
William Sallie has again been sentenced to death for the 1990 slaying of his father-in-law in south Georgia's Bacon County
- FEBRUARY 19, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Superior Court Judge Hal Craig imposed the death penalty...
Superior Court Judge Hal Craig imposed the death penalty against Mustafa Raheem, 21, on recommendation from the Henry County jury that heard the case
- JANUARY 14, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Small counties in South Georgia are going broke prosecuting...
Small counties in South Georgia are going broke prosecuting and defending death penalty cases - even though fewer and fewer murderers are being put to death
- JANUARY 8, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Two bills (HB 11, HB 44) were introduced
Two bills (HB 11, HB 44) were introduced
- JANUARY 1, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
In 1993 Georgia introduced a moratorium on executions...
In 1993 Georgia introduced a moratorium on executions that was lifted for a while in 1995
- JANUARY 1, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
In April 2000, Eduard Shevardnadze won another five...
In April 2000, Eduard Shevardnadze won another five year term in Georgia's presidential election
- JANUARY 1, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia forbids the execution of the mentally retarded...
Georgia forbids the execution of the mentally retarded but does not forbid the execution of juvenile offenders
- DECEMBER 12, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The President of the Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov, issued...
The President of the Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov, issued a decree "On Criminal Responsibility of Citizens of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria for Crimes Committed in Georgia"
- AUGUST 22, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges...
The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Param Cumaraswamy, in an urgent communication to the United States Government, has expressed his grave concern over the scheduled execution of Alexander Edmund Williams on 24 August 2000
- AUGUST 21, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union called on the authorities of Georgia...
The European Union called on the authorities of Georgia to spare the life of Alexander Edmund Williams, a death row inmate, mentally ill and juvenile offender, facing electrocution on August 24
- APRIL 26, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Georgia cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty...
Georgia cosponsored the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- MARCH 28, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Mamuka Antia, 31, an ethnic Georgian guerrilla imprisoned...
Mamuka Antia, 31, an ethnic Georgian guerrilla imprisoned in the self-declared republic of Abkhazia committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in Dranda, the minister of internal affairs of Abkhazia, Almazbei Kchach, said on April 3
- MARCH 15, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Georgia Senate approved replacing electrocution...
The Georgia Senate approved replacing electrocution with lethal injection as the state's execution method
- MARCH 13, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Djergenia, who is prosecutor-general of the unrecognized...
Djergenia, who is prosecutor-general of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, has written to UN Special Representative Dieter Boden denying Georgian media allegations that three Georgian prisoners of war have been executed in Abkhazia's Dranda prison