A man convicted of shooting two Georgia convenience store clerks — killing one and seriously injuring the other — in separate robberies is scheduled to be executed later this month.
Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to be put to death Oct. 30 at the state prison in Jackson, state Attorney General Chris Carr said in a news release Wednesday. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to die for the April 1994 slaying of 50-year-old Richard Slysz at a convenience store in Thomasville, just north of the Florida border.
His lawyers asked a judge in December to order DNA testing on various pieces of evidence in the case. They wrote in a court filing that they anticipated the testing would show Cromartie didn’t shoot the two clerks and should have a new trial.
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