Willie James Pye was sentenced to death in 1996 for murdering his ex-girlfriend.
A Georgia board declined Tuesday to stay the execution of a man sentenced to death in the killing of his former girlfriend.Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson via lethal injection, in what is the state's first execution in more than four years.
Pye was convicted in 1996 of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, armed robbery, burglary and rape in the death of his former girlfriend, Alicia Lynn Yarbrough, in 1993. The jury recommended a death sentence for the malice murder count, which was ordered by a trial court.Last month, the Superior Court of Spalding County set the seven-day window for Pye's execution, beginning at 12 p.m. ET and expiring on March 27 at 12 p.m. ET.
Additionally, Pye's attorneys say he has had a positive impact in prison on his fellow inmates, has never been a threat to the lives of correction staff and that he feels remorse for his crimes.
States and jurisdictions can use a one-, two- or three-drug combination. The three-drug combination involves, firstly, an anesthetic or sedative, then a drug to paralyze the prisoner and, lastly, a drug to stop the heart, the DPIC said.However, problems have arisen with lethal injections in the form of botched executions. Officials have struggled to find veins, intravenous lines have clogged with the deadly chemicals and prisoners have had violent reactions to the dispensed drugs.
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