The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole will accept information for or against clemency for Willie James Pye at a last-minute meeting in Atlanta next week.
The 59-year-old Black man was convicted in Spalding County for the 1993 murder, kidnapping, robbery, rape and burglary of his former girlfriend, Alicia Lynn Yarbrough.
Pye is scheduled to receive a lethal dose of pentobarbital, which is supposed to paralyze the body, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson on Wednesday, March 20, at 7 p.m.
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