A day after carrying out the state’s eighth execution this year, authorities in Georgia announced plans for another one.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced Thursday that 50-year-old William Sallie is scheduled to die on Dec. 6. Sallie was convicted of murder in the March 1990 slaying of his father-in-law, John Lee Moore.
Prosecutors say Sallie went to his in-laws’ home, where his estranged wife and their 2-year-old son were staying, and shot Moore and Moore’s wife, who survived. He then abducted his estranged wife and her sister.
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