As his scheduled execution nears, lawyers for a Georgia man are asking the state parole board to spare his life and challenging the constitutionality of his sentence in court.
Scotty Garnell Morrow, 52, is set to be put to death Thursday at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend Barbara Ann Young and her friend Tonya Woods at Young’s Gainesville home in December 1994. A third woman was also shot but survived.
In a petition filed Tuesday in Butts County Superior Court, his lawyers argued his death sentence is unconstitutional because it was improperly imposed.
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