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Lyndon Pace Georgia Death Row

Lyndon Pace was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a series of robberies and murders. According to court documents Lyndon Pace, who is a serial killer, would rob the homes of elderly women and then murder him. Police in Atlanta would state he was responsible for eight murders and could be more. Lyndon Pace was sentenced to death.

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Lyndon Pace 2021 Information

YOB: 1964
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’11”
WEIGHT: 215
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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A jury convicted Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace of four counts of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, four counts of rape, and two counts of aggravated sodomy. The jury recommended a death sentence for each malice murder conviction after finding beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of 19 statutory aggravating circumstances. OCGA 17-10-30 (b) (2), (7). Pace appeals and we affirm. 1

1. The evidence adduced at trial shows that four women were murdered in their Atlanta homes in 1988 and 1989.

On August 28, 1988, a roommate found the nude body of 86-year-old Lula Bell McAfee lying face-down on her bed. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death with a strip of cloth.

On September 10, 1988, Mattie Mae McLendon, 78 years old, was found lying dead on her bed covered by a sheet. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. No ligature was found.

On February 4, 1989, the police discovered the body of 79-year-old Johnnie Mae Martin lying on her bed nude from the waist down. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death with a shoelace.

On March 4, 1989, the brother-in-law of 42-year-old Annie Kate Britt found her body lying on her bed. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death with a sock that was still knotted around her neck.

The police determined that the killer entered each victim’s home by climbing through a window. Each attack occurred in the early morning hours. Vaginal lacerations and the presence of semen indicated that the victims had been raped and two of the women had been anally sodomized. The medical examiner removed spermatozoa from each victim and sent the samples to the FBI lab. DNA testing revealed the same DNA profile for each sperm sample, indicating a common perpetrator.

At 3:00 a.m. on September 24, 1992, 69-year-old Sarah Grogan confronted an intruder in her kitchen. She managed to obtain her gun and fire a shot which forced him to flee. The police discovered that the intruder entered Ms. Grogan’s house by climbing through a window. A crime scene technician lifted fingerprints from Ms. Grogan’s kitchen.

At 2:00 a.m. on September 30, 1992, Susie Sublett, an elderly woman who lived alone, awoke to discover an intruder taking money from her purse in her bedroom. Although the intruder was armed and threatened to “blow [her] brains out,” she fought with him and managed to flee to a neighbor’s house. The neighbor called the police. The police determined that the intruder entered Ms. Sublett’s house by climbing through a window. A crime scene technician lifted fingerprints from Ms. Sublett’s window screen.

The fingerprints from the Sublett and Grogan crime scenes matched Pace’s fingerprints, which were already on file with the police. Lyndon Pace was arrested and agreed to give hair and blood samples to the police. Pace’s pubic hair was consistent with a pubic hair found on the sweat pants Annie Kate Britt wore on the night she was murdered, and with a pubic hair found on a sheet near Johnnie Mae Martin’s body. A DNA expert also determined that Pace’s DNA profile matched the DNA profile taken from the sperm in the McAfee, Martin, McLendon, and Britt murders. The expert testified that the probability of a coincidental match of this DNA profile is one in 500 million in the McAfee, Martin, and Britt cases, and one in 150 million in the McLendon case. 2

The evidence was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt proof of Pace’s guilt of four counts of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, four counts of rape, and two counts of aggravated sodomy. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979). The evidence was also sufficient to authorize the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt the 19 statutory aggravating circumstances which support his death sentences for the murders. Jackson v. Virginia, supra; OCGA 17-10-35 (c) (2).

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1443084.html

Dorian O’Kelley Georgia Death Row

Dorian O’Kelley and Darryl Stinski were sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for two sexual assaults and murders. According to court documents Dorian O’Kelley and Darryl Stinski would sexually assault a mother and her thirteen year old daughter before murdering the pair and setting their house on fire. Dorian O’Kelley and Darry Stinski would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Dorian O’Kelley 2021 Information

YOB: 1981
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 6’02”
WEIGHT: 190
EYE COLOR: HAZEL
HAIR COLOR: BLACK

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

Darryl Stinski 2021 Information

YOB: 1983
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’10”
WEIGHT: 200
EYE COLOR: BLUE
HAIR COLOR: BROWN

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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The evidence presented at trial shows that, shortly before midnight on April 10, 2002, Dorian O’Kelley and his co-defendant, Darryl Stinski, were observed at a convenience store by two Chatham County police officers. The officers noticed the defendants because they were dressed in black clothing, they carried a black duffle bag that appeared empty, and Stinski had several facial and ear piercings. Shortly after Dorian O’Kelley and Stinski left the store, the officers responded to a burglar alarm at a residence within walking distance of the store and discovered a broken window there. The occupant of the residence, who was not home at the time, testified at trial that she returned to find that someone had apparently tried to kick in her back door and had broken a window and bent the curtain rod inside the home. O’Kelley admitted in his first statement to police that he and Stinski went to a residence in order to commit a theft therein on the night in question but fled after the alarm went off.

A few hours later, at approximately 5:30 a.m. on April 11, the same police officers were leaving the convenience store when they spotted a fire in the distance. Rushing to the scene, they found the Pittman residence engulfed in flames. This home was in close proximity to the residence which had been burglarized earlier. In the headlights of the police car, one of the officers again observed O’Kelley and Stinski, this time standing in a wooded area across the street from the burning house. However, they had disappeared by the time the officers exited the vehicle. Once the fire was extinguished, officials discovered the remains of the victims.

That evening, Dorian O’Kelley and Stinski brought a duffle bag to the mobile home where Stinski was staying, and O’Kelley told the group of people present that he and Stinski had stolen items from automobiles in the neighborhood. He also confided in one member of the group that he had burglarized and set fire to the Pittman residence, and he claimed to have slit Ms. Pittman’s throat and to have raped Kimberly. O’Kelley then removed from his wallet a tooth in a ziplock bag and stated that he had “busted it out of the little girl’s mouth.” After O’Kelley and Stinski left the mobile home, the group opened the duffle bag and discovered several items, including compact discs marked with Kimberly’s initials and prescription pill bottles containing oxycodone with Ms. Pittman’s name and address on the labels. A group member phoned the police and advised them of the bag’s contents and O’Kelley’s comments. After the contents of the bag were identified by a family member as belonging to the victims, O’Kelley and Stinski were arrested, and a human tooth later determined through DNA evidence to belong to Kimberly was found inside O’Kelley’s wallet.

In his second statement to police, Dorian O’Kelley confessed to killing Ms. Pittman by repeatedly beating and stabbing her, to beating and stabbing Kimberly, to setting the Pittman residence on fire while Kimberly was still alive, and to taking numerous items from the residence. O’Kelley told police that items stolen from the home and from automobiles in the neighborhood were located in the attic of his house and that he had discarded the clothing and shoes that he was wearing during the murders in a garbage bag on top of an abandoned mobile home near his house. Police located these items as O’Kelley described. Blood on the clothing was identified as Ms. Pittman’s, and blood on the shoes was identified as that of both victims.

Four witnesses testified that, early on the day following the murders, they discovered that someone had broken into and removed personal belongings from their automobiles parked in O’Kelley’s neighborhood. O’Kelley’s fingerprint was found inside one of these vehicles, and the witnesses identified their stolen property from items recovered by the police from O’Kelley’s attic. After reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, we conclude that there was sufficient evidence for a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt that O’Kelley was guilty of the crimes for which he was convicted, including the first burglary during which the alarm was triggered. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979). See also Gude v. State, 213 Ga.App. 573-574(1), 445 S.E.2d 355 (1994) (finding evidence sufficient to prove an entry to support appellant’s burglary conviction where blood was found inside a broken window, curtains were hanging outside as if pulled through the broken window, and part of appellant’s jersey was hanging from inside window); Mullinnix v. State, 177 Ga.App. 168, 338 S.E.2d 752 (1985) (finding evidence sufficient to prove an entry with intent to commit theft where, when responding to silent alarm, police found defendant hiding outside the door with burglar tools and the trip string to the silent alarm device, which could not have been removed without inserting an instrument in the open door knob hole because the door was locked by a deadbolt).

The trial court erred, however, by not merging for sentencing the two first degree arson counts. Count 5 charged O’Kelley with first degree arson committed by knowingly damaging by fire the dwelling house of Susan Pittman under OCGA § 16-7-60(a)(1), and Count 6 charged him with first degree arson committed by knowingly damaging by fire the same structure on the same date as Count 5 under such circumstances that it was reasonably foreseeable that human life might be endangered under OCGA § 16-7-60(a)(5). Although the evidence shows that O’Kelley set the Pittman residence afire by setting multiple fires in succession throughout the house, his conduct constituted one act of arson, that of the burning of the Pittman residence. Thus, there is only one crime of arson in the first degree. Altman v. State, 156 Ga.App. 185, 186(1), 273 S.E.2d 923 (1980). The trial court erred in imposing two consecutive twenty-year sentences for the single first degree arson offense and is directed to strike the sentence imposed on Count 6.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1123659.html

Michael Nance Georgia Death Row

Michael Nance was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a murder committed during a robbery. According to court documents Michael Nance robbed a bank and warned the tellers not to put in any “dye packs”. When Michael Nance went to his vehicle a dye pack exploded. Nance would leave the vehicle and run across the road to a liquor store where he stole a vehicle shooting and killing the owner.

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Micheal Nance 2021 Information

YOB: 1961
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 6’01”
WEIGHT: 240
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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The evidence adduced at trial shows that Michael Nance stole a 1980 Oldsmobile Omega and drove to the Tucker Federal Savings & Loan on December 18, 1993. He entered the bank wearing a ski mask and gloves and carrying a .22 caliber revolver. While ordering the tellers to put money into two pillowcases he had brought with him, he said “no dye money or I’ll kill you” and “I’m going to come back and kill you all if the dye thing goes off.” Despite Nance’s threats, the tellers managed to slip two dye packets in with the money. Michael Nance exited the bank and got into the Oldsmobile where the dye packets activated, emitting red dye and tear gas. Nance abandoned the Oldsmobile holding the gun in his right hand covered by a plastic trash bag. His ski mask and the dye-stained bags of money were left in the car.

Michael Nance ran to a liquor store parking lot. Dan McNeal had just made a purchase at the liquor store and was standing in the parking lot. Gabor Balogh had just left the liquor store and was backing his car out of a parking space. Balogh was only halfway out of the parking space when Nance ran around the front of Balogh’s car, yanked open the front driver’s-side door, and thrust his right arm into the car. McNeal saw Balogh leaning away from Nance with his hands on the steering wheel. He heard Balogh screaming and saying “No, no.” Nance shot Balogh in the left elbow and the bullet entered his chest. The medical examiner testified that the bullet moved downward through Balogh’s body, passing between the upper and lower lobes of his left lung and lacerating his heart before stopping in his liver.

Nance then pointed the gun at McNeal and said, “Give me your keys.” McNeal ran around the side of the liquor store and Nance fired another shot. McNeal was not hit. Nance apparently ran around the other side of the store because the two men encountered each other behind the store. McNeal turned and ran back around the store to the parking lot. He went to Balogh’s car and saw Balogh slumped over and gasping for breath. Balogh died before the ambulance arrived.

Michael Nance ran to a nearby gas station where he held the gun to his head during a one-hour standoff with police. He told the police, “If anyone rushes me, there’s going to be war.” The police convinced him to surrender. Nance’s gloves and shirt were stained with the same red dye used in the dye packets. A firearms expert testified that Nance’s gun, which contained two spent shells, was probably the same gun used to kill Balogh. Nance confessed to the bank robbery, but said that he had only fired once up in the air to scare Balogh because Balogh was trying to run him over with his car. To show Nance’s intent and bent of mind, the State presented evidence that Nance robbed another bank in the same county in September 1993 and issued a similar threat to the teller. In the penalty phase, the State presented evidence that Nance committed an armed robbery in Kansas in 1984.

The evidence was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt proof of Nance’s guilt of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, theft by taking, criminal attempt to commit armed robbery, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979). The evidence was also sufficient to authorize the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt the two statutory aggravating circumstances which support his death sentence for the murder. Id.; OCGA § 17-10-35(c)(2).

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1185452.html

Jeremy Moody Georgia Death Row

Jeremy Moody was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for the murders of two teenagers. According to court documents Jeremy Moody approached two teenagers, 15-year-old Delarlnova “Del” Mattox and 13-year-old Chrisondra Sierra Kimble. Jeremy Moody would sexually assault the 13 year old girl while stabbing her repeatedly with a screwdriver. Her fifteen year old cousin would also be stabbed to death. Jeremy Moody would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Jeremy Moody 2021 Information

YOB: 1977
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’07”
WEIGHT: 210
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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A Fulton County jury has sentenced Jeremy Moody to death by lethal injection.

Moody pleaded guilty last week to killing 15-year-old Delarlnova “Del” Mattox and 13-year-old Chrisondra Sierra Kimble after raping Kimble in April 2007.

The teens were reported missing after they walked from their home to an Old National Highway store to buy snacks on April 5, and were subsequently found stripped of their clothes and stabbed multiple times around their heads and necks

Police determined that Moody had used a screwdriver in an attempt to rob the teens.

Six of the charges against him – two each for murder and kidnapping – carried death as the maximum penalty. Other charges included rape, aggravated assault and armed robbery.

The jury found for death in each of the murder charges.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Christopher Basher determined the punishment for the non-death-penalty charges, adding three consecutive life sentences plus 40 years to the two death sentences.

Pete Johnson, the Fulton County assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case, said prosecutors sought the death penalty because the circumstances of the murders fit the state’s criteria for capital punishment cases — if the murder occurs during another capital felony, in this case the rape of Kimble.

Johnson also said the killings were carried out in a manner that was considered torture, and reflected an abandoned heart or a depraved mind on Moody’s part — more state-mandated criteria for death penalty consideration.

“The fact that 13-year-old Chrisondra Kimble was stabbed approximately 17 times in the head and neck with a screwdriver and raped at the same time … while her 15-year-old cousin “Del” Mattox Jr. was stabbed almost 40 times in the head and chest with a screwdriver, impaling his skull and going into his brain would qualify for a death penalty case,” Johnson said.

Although Moody, 35, was arrested a day after the teens disappeared, it took prosecutors six years to bring the case to trial because, they say, he continued to intentionally injured himself in the Fulton County jail.

Still, the victims’ grandmother, Vivian Mattox, told Channel 2 Action News that her family’s patience paid off with a favorable outcome.

“We just knew justice was going to be served,” Mattox said.

Moody pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial, and the jury was held over to determine his punishment.

During sentencing, defense attorneys attempted unsuccessfully to paint Moody as an unstable drug abuser who was the product of growing up around drug-addicted parents.

“We were saddened that (jurors) didn’t give the mitigation evidence as much consideration as we thought it warranted,” defense attorney Maurice Kenner told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We plan on filing an appeal or motion for a new trial within the next week. We think there are some areas of error.”

This is the fifth Fulton County death penalty ruling in 13 years.

Gregory P. Lawler was sentenced to death in March 2000 for killing Atlanta Police Officer John Sowa. In July 2008, Demetrius G. Willis was sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend, her boyfriend and 3-year-old son in Atlanta, and shooting, but not killing, two other children.

Cleveland Clark was convicted as the hitman in a racially-motivated murder-for-hire scheme that left Union City mother Sparkle Rai dead at the behest of her father-in-law, Chiman Rai. A Fulton County jury sentenced him to death in June 2009.

And De’Kelvin Martin fatally stabbed his girlfriend’s grandparents and her 12-year-old son in a fit of rage, leading a jury to rule in October 2010 that he should be executed by lethal injection.

All of those men remain on death row at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

On Tuesday, relatives of Kimble and “Del” Mattox said they were thrilled with the jury’s verdict.

“We’re so ecstatic about the jury’s decision as to the death penalty,” cousin Shana Long told Channel 2. “We couldn’t ask for any less than that. We are just thankful for the turnout.”

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/death-sentence-for-man-who-killed-college-park-teens/d8leUuqdfcVtP6Jb9hV1IO/

Michael Miller Georgia Death Row

Michael Miller was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a robbery murder. According to court documents Michael Miller would fire at a moving car, when the driver stopped and tried to run he was shot multiple times by Miller who would then steal the victims possessions. The day before the murder Michael Miller and an accomplice kidnapped a man and forced him to return to the victims home so they could steal all of his belongings. Michael Miller was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Michael Miller 2021 Information

YOB: 1962
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’11”
WEIGHT: 162
EYE COLOR: BROWN
HAIR COLOR: BLACK

MAJOR OFFENSE: MURDER
MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: GA DIAG CLASS PRISON
MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: DEATH

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On the evening of October 27, 1987, Miller and Darrell Cook were riding around Atlanta in a van Cook had stolen, looking for money. They kidnapped Jimmy Evans in the parking lot of a bar, tied him up, and forced him to tell them where he lived. They then proceeded to his apartment, which they entered using his key. They tied up his roommate, and stole several items from the apartment. Evans was driven to a deserted area, where he was thrown out of the van, and Miller urinated on him.

Leaving Evans by the side of the road, Miller and Cook met with Teresa Okoia. The three of them drove to Covington, where they spent the day buying drugs. They were returning on Miller-Bottom Road in the early morning of October 29 when they decided to stop the first car they saw and rob it.

That car was driven by Larry Sneed. Miller shot several times at his car with a .22 rifle. When Sneed put on his brakes, his car was struck from the rear by the van, and left the road. Sneed exited his car and ran. Miller shot him in the back and went through his pockets while Okoia searched the car. They got Sneed’s wallet, a cooler, a check, and several credit cards. When the porchlight of a nearby house came on, they drove away. Sneed bled to death.

On November 11, 1987, Miller, who was in jail on an unrelated charge, told the police he had information about the robbery and shooting of Sneed. Miller said he was not involved but had heard about it from “Monte” and Cook. However, Miller gave the officers so many details of the crime they suspected he was involved. Asked if he would take a polygraph examination, Miller told the officers it was not necessary as he was going to tell them about it. He now admitted that he was with Cook and Monte, but claimed he did not do anything except observe.

On November 24, 1987 Miller was given a polygraph examination. Before the test, Miller read and signed a waiver of his Miranda rights and also signed a form stipulating that the results would be admissible at trial. The examiner testified at trial that, in his opinion, Miller was untruthful when he denied shooting Larry Sneed.