No Reprieve For Georgia Death Row Inmate Set To Be Executed Wednesday
Donnie Cleveland Lance was convicted of the 1997 murders of his ex-wife and her boyfriend.
Georgia Department of Corrections via AP
There will be no reprieve for Georgia death row inmate Donnie Cleveland Lance.
As WABE’s Pat St. Claire reports, the 66-year-old is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson after the five-member Board of Pardons and Paroles announced his life would not be spared.
The parole board is the only authority in Georgia that can commute a death sentence.
Lance was convicted of the 1997 murders of his ex-wife Sabrina “Joy” Lance and her boyfriend Dwight “Butch” Wood.
Lance’s execution is scheduled for 7 p.m.
He will become the first person executed in Georgia this year.
Jimmy Fletcher Meders was scheduled to die earlier this month, but hours before the execution, the parole board commuted his sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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