The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole has denied clemency for Willie James Pye, clearing the way for the state’s first execution since 2020.
Pye, a 59-year-old Black man, was convicted for the 1993 kidnapping, rape and murder of his on-and-off again girlfriend, Alicia Lynn Yarbrough.
He’s scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson on Wednesday, March 20, at 7 p.m.
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