A psychiatrist selected by the state said that a Georgia death-row inmate who’s scheduled for execution Wednesday night doesn’t want to die, but doesn’t want to live the rest of his life in prison.
Steven Frederick Spears, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend Sherri Holland in 2001, has refused to appeal his pending execution.
Spears would be the first person in Georgia to refuse to appeal his death sentence since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
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