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Commutation Georgia

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Tonight’s execution in Georgia, Samuel Crowe, was commuted to Life without Parole. AJC has more. The 47-year-old man would have been the second inmate to be put to death in Georgia in 16 days and the third in the country since a de facto moratorium on executions was lifted in April, when the U.S. Supreme Court approved lethal injection in a Kentucky case. Crowe had admitted killing Joseph V. Pala, a former co-worker at a Douglasville lumber business, 20 years ago. In a 25-page filing with the parole board, Crowe’s attorney, Ann Fort, said that the night of the killing, her client had recently stopped using cocaine and was in severe withdrawal. Crowe has been rehabilitated, she said, and has constantly tried to atone for the brutal murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on May 22, 2008 (boomark / email).