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Georgia stay (at least for now)

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The scheduled execution of William Mark Mize has been stayed in Georgia, at least for now. A technical legal matter pushed back Tuesday’s planned execution of Georgia death row inmate William Mark Mize for at least one day, officials said. The Georgia Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to give Oconee County Superior Court Judge Lawton Stephens an opportunity to rule on Mize’s motion for a new trial. Stephens denied the motion later in the afternoon and now Mize is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Athens Banner-Herald reported. Previously, the county judge had denied Mize’s request for a hearing on the motion but had not ruled on the motion itself, the state’s highest court said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).