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Ashley Jones Georgia Death Row

Ashley Jones was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a brutal murder. According to court documents Ashley Jones and Allen Brunner were driving around when they developed car trouble. They would go to the victims door asking for help. While the victim was leaning over the car examining the engine he was struck in the head by Ashley Jones first with a wrench and then a sledgehammer. The victims wife would watch the murder from a window in the house. Ashley Jones and Allen Brunner would be arrested. Allen Brunner would be sentenced to life and Ashley Jones was sentenced to death.

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Ashley Jones 2021 Information

YOB: 1973
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’11”
WEIGHT: 170
EYE COLOR: GREEN
HAIR COLOR: BROWN

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

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Ashley Jones and his co-defendant, Allen Bunner, began the crime spree which led to the death of Keith Holland on the night before the murder, when they stole four cases of beer from a convenience store in Ware County. The co-defendants fled in an automobile with three other companions, who were waiting for them outside the store. The group spent the remainder of the night driving around aimlessly and drinking the stolen beer, until their car’ broke dawn, and Ashley Jones and Bunner left the others, stating they were going to find a truck.

The co-defendants stole a Ford truck, belonging to Rudolph Melton, which was parked in front of Melton’s residence. After driving around for several more hours in the stolen truck, they arrived at the home of the victim, Keith Holland. Bunner knocked on Holland’s front door at approximately 5 a.m. and asked Holland’s wife Mamie for assistance, on the pretext that the truck’s battery was dead. Mamie Holland woke-her husband, and he went outside to assist Bunner.

As Holland was leaning over to look in the engine compartment of the truck, Ashley Jones struck him in the head from behind with a sledge hammer.Mamie Holland witnessed the first blow from her dining room window and reacted by screaming for Jones to stop and by banging on the window. Jones turned and looked at her but continued to pound the victim, inflicting at least six blows to the head and face, all of which were potentially fatal. Prior to leaving in the victim’s truck,

Ashley Jones got out of the vehicle and hit the victim again, while he was lying on the ground. EMS workers arrived within minutes after the codefendants’ departure. Because of the injuries to the victim’s face, EMS workers were unable to perform CPR or intubate the victim, and he died before reaching the hospital.Jones and Bunner drove to Florida in the victim’s truck. They tossed Holland’s personal belongings out of the truck along the way, and pawned two chain saws belonging to Melton. Police learned of their whereabouts through telephone calls made by the co-defendants to a friend in Georgia, and they were arrested at a welcome station south of the Georgia-Florida line. The victim’s truck, which Jones and Bunner had burned, was found in the woods a short distance away. Jones v. State, 267. Ga. 592, 592-93, 481 S.E.2d 823-24 (1997).

https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20170526c26

Stacey Humphreys Georgia Death Row

Stacey Humphreys was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a double murder. According to court documents Stacey Humphreys went into a real estate office where he would force a woman into the back officer where she was forced to strip and give him her PIN for her debit card. Stacey Humphreys would strangle the woman and then shot her causing her death. Another woman would enter the office and she would be attacked by Stacey Humphreys who would force her to strip and give up her PIN for her debit card, she would also be strangled and shot. Stacey Humphreys would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Stacey Humphreys 2021 Information

YOB: 1973
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 6’03”
WEIGHT: 330
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, construed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdicts, showed the following. At approximately 12:40 p.m. on November 3, 2003, Stacey Humphreys, a convicted felon who was still on parole, entered a home construction company’s sales office located in a model home for a new subdivision in Cobb County. Cindy Williams and Lori Brown were employed there as real estate agents. Finding Ms. Williams alone in the office, Humphreys used a stolen handgun to force her to undress and to reveal the personal identification number (PIN) for her automated teller machine (ATM) card. After calling Ms. Williams’s bank to learn the amount of her current balance, Humphreys tied her underwear so tightly around her neck that, when her body was discovered, her neck bore a prominent ligature mark and her tongue was protruding from her mouth, which had turned purple. While choking Ms. Williams, Stacey Humphreys forced her to get down on her hands and knees and to move into Ms. Brown’s office and behind Ms. Brown’s desk. Humphreys placed his handgun at Ms. Williams back and positioned a bag of balloons between the gun and her body to muffle the sound of gunshots. He then fired a shot into her back that went through her lung and heart, fired a second shot through her head, and left her face-down on her hands and knees under the desk.

Ms. Brown entered the office during or shortly after Humphreys’s attack on Ms. Williams, and he attacked her too. Ms. Brown suffered a hemorrhage in her throat that was consistent with her having been choked in a headlock-type grip or having been struck in the throat. Humphreys also forced Ms. Brown to undress and to reveal her PIN, called her bank to obtain her balance, and made her kneel with her head facing the floor. Then, while standing over Ms. Brown, Humphreys fired one gunshot through her head, this time using both a bag of balloons and Ms. Brown’s folded blouse to muffle the sound. He dragged her body to her desk, took both victims’ driver’s licenses and ATM and credit cards, and left the scene at approximately 1:30 p.m. Neither victim sustained any defensive wounds.

When the builder, whose office was located in the model home’s basement, heard the door chime of the security system indicating that someone had exited the sales office, he went to the sales office to meet with the agents. There he discovered Ms. Brown’s body and called 911. The responding police officer discovered Ms. Williams’s body.

After interviewing the builder and canvassing the neighborhood, the police released to the media descriptions of the suspect and a Dodge Durango truck seen at the sales office near the time of the crimes. In response, someone at the job site where Humphreys worked called to advise that Humphreys and his vehicle matched those descriptions and that Humphreys did not report to work on the day of the crimes. The police began to investigate Humphreys and made arrangements through his parole officer to meet with him on the morning of November 7, 2003. Humphreys skipped the meeting, however, and eluded police officers who had him under surveillance.

Humphreys was apprehended in Wisconsin the following day. Police there recovered from the console of his rental vehicle a Ruger 9-millimeter pistol, which was determined to be the murder weapon. Swabbings from that gun revealed blood containing Ms. Williams’s DNA. A stain on the driver-side floormat of Humphreys’s Durango was determined to be blood containing Ms. Brown’s DNA.

After the murders, the victims’ ATM cards were used to withdraw over $3,000 from their accounts. Two days after the murders, Humphreys deposited $1,000 into his account, and he had approximately $800 in cash in his possession when he was arrested. Humphreys claimed in a statement to the police that he did not remember his actions at the time of the crimes. However, when asked why he fled, he said: “I know I did it. I know it just as well as I know my own name.” He also told the police that he had recently taken out some high-interest “payday” loans and that he “got over [his] head with that stinking truck.”

The evidence presented at trial and summarized above was easily sufficient for a rational jury to find Humphreys guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the crimes charged. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319(III)(B), 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1510237.html

Dallas Holiday Georgia Death Row

Dallas Holiday was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a robbery murder. According to court documents Dallas Holiday attacked the sixty six year old man as he went for a morning walk. The victim would be struck several times before being shot. Dallas Holiday had stolen the gun the night before during a robbery.

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Dallas Holiday 2021 Information

YOB: 1962
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’06”
WEIGHT: 126
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 March 11, 1986, the victim, Leon Williams, went for his usual early-morning walk. His wife often accompanied him, but this time she remained home. Half an hour after he left, a nearby neighbor, Barbara Buckner, ran to the Williams’ house and asked to use the telephone — someone was breaking into her house. The Williams’ telephone was not working, so Mrs. Williams drove Mrs. Buckner to the police station.

The defendant was still in the Buckner home when the police arrived, but he ran out the back door and eluded capture for nearly an hour. A pistol he dropped during the chase turned out to have been one of two taken in another burglary the previous evening.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Williams returned home. By lunchtime, her husband still had not returned from his walk. She began checking around, trying to find him, and could not. His disappearance was reported to the police that afternoon.

Shortly after 5:00 p.m., the sheriff discovered signs of a struggle at an old pond site. He tracked blood drippings to the edge of a nearby woods, where he found Williams’ body.

Williams had been hit on the head at least seven times with a blunt object. The autopsist testified the wounds were consistent with having been inflicted by the butt of a gun, or by a brick similar to one found near the body. Williams had a number of defensive wounds on his hands, including a laceration of one finger that almost completely severed the finger. The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head.

A ballistics comparison showed that a bullet recovered from under the victim’s scalp had been fired from the .32 caliber pistol dropped by Holiday as he attempted to elude the police. Pieces of another gun left at the scene of the struggle a broken piece of the stock, a magazine spring and a follower were compared to and fit the .380 automatic obtained from Holiday’s female companion. Blood on the .380 pistol and on the brick found near the body was consistent with that of the victim.

Holiday was interrogated after his arrest, and he admitted stealing the two guns in a burglary the previous evening. He stated that he was riding his bicycle when he saw the victim walking, and decided to hit him on the head from the rear with one of the guns, knock him out, and take his money. The blow failed to render the victim unconscious, however, so Holiday ordered him toward the woods. While Williams begged him not to kill him, Holiday took his wallet and his watch and ordered him to lie down. Then he got a brick and hit him two or three times on the head. Williams was still alive, so Holiday took out his other gun — the one he had not hit him with and shot him. Then, Holiday stated, he decided to burglarize another house. He rang the doorbell, and when no one answered (Mrs. Buckner was in the shower) he went to the rear, broke out the glass in a sliding-glass door, and entered the house. While he was looking for something to steal, the police arrived.

Jerry Heidler Georgia Death Row

Jerry Heidler was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a quadruple murder. According to court documents Jerry Heidler would break into a home and kill two parents and two of their children while they slept. Jerry Heidler would abduct three other children from the home, one of the girls told police she was molested, the three children would be found alive. Jerry Heidler would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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Jerry Heidler 2021 Information

YOB: 1977
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 6’02”
WEIGHT: 215
EYE COLOR: HAZEL
HAIR COLOR: BROWN

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

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Danny and Kim Daniels lived in the town of Santa Claus in Toombs County[, Georgia] with their seven children, three of whom were foster children. Heidler’s sister was in the Daniels’ care as a foster child for 45 days in 1995, and it was then that he began to frequent the house and occasionally to stay there overnight. Months before the murders, Mr. Daniels noticed that Heidler, 20 years old at the time, was beginning to develop a relationship

with his 16 year old daughter, Jessica. He had a conversation with Heidler, after which Heidler stopped visiting the Daniels’ home.
At approximately 5:00 a.m. on December 4, 1997, the police in Bacon County[, Georgia] found three young girls on the street in their nightclothes. The girls said they had been kidnapped from the Daniels’ house in Toombs County by a man they knew as Scott Taylor, who drove them to Bacon County in a white van. The police subsequently learned from DFCS [Division of Family and Child Services] that “Scott Taylor” was actually Heidler. The ten-year-old victim told the police that Heidler sexually assaulted her in the van while in Toombs County. This was corroborated by evidence of physical trauma to the child and by DNA testing. The eight-year-old victim told the police that she witnessed the sexual assault. From a photographic lineup, each of the three girls separately identified Heidler as the kidnapper.
Toombs County police officers went to the Daniels’ house, where they found the bodies of the four victims. Bryant Daniels, eight years old, was found lying on his bed face-down, where he died from massive head trauma caused by a close-range shotgun blast. Both Mr. and Mrs. Daniels were found lying in their bed, each having been killed by multiple shotgun blasts. The body of Jessica Daniels also was found lying in the master bedroom, near a doorway that led into the hallway. She had been killed by a close-range shotgun blast to the back of her head. A Remington 1100 semi-automatic shotgun was missing from Mr. Daniels’ gun cabinet, the door to which was open. Seven spent shotgun casings were found throughout the house. A firearms expert testified that the Remington 1100 shotgun holds six shotgun shells, so the shooter must have reloaded at least once. A neighbor heard, at 1:45 a.m., noises that could have been shots and the police determined that the assailant entered the house by using a ladder to climb through a bathroom window. A fingerprint lifted from this window matched Heidler’s fingerprint. DNA taken from saliva on a cigarette butt found on the floor in the house matched Heidler’s DNA.
After dropping the girls off in Bacon County, Heidler went to his mother’s house where he slept and played video games with his brother. Heidler asked his brother

if he had ever killed anyone, and his brother said no. Jerry Heidler then said that killing “gives you a rush, makes you want to go out and kill more people.” After his arrest, Heidler confessed to the crimes. He told the police that he threw the shotgun into a river and the kidnapped girls confirmed this assertion.

https://casetext.com/case/heidler-v-gdcp-warden

Adrian Hargrove Georgia Death Row

Adrian Hargrove was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a triple murder. According to court documents Adrian Hargrove would take the first victim, who was pregnant, to a remote location where she was stabbed to death. Adrian would return to the victims parents home where he would stab both of them to death. Adrian Hargrove was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Adrian Hargrove 2021 Information

YOB: 1977
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 6’00”
WEIGHT: 184
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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Five years ago this month, a jury convicted Adrian Hargrove of committing a triple homicide and voted to sentence him to death. He was back in Richmond County Superior Court on Tuesday for his first post-conviction hearing.

At trial, Hargrove’s defense attorney sought a verdict that would have taken the option of a death sentence off the table. A verdict of guilty but mentally ill or intellectually disabled would have done that.

On Tuesday, Hargove’s appellate attorneys presented an expert in psychology, specifically intellectual disability. Marlyne Israelian testified about the complexity of determining the disability when a person is in the mild range, as opposed to moderate or profound.

The legal standard in Georgia death penalty cases requires the defense to prove such a disability beyond a reasonable doubt. Israelian testified that it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to meet that standard in cases of mild intellectual disability.

On Feb. 9, 2008, according to trial testimony, Hargrove lured 18-year-old Allyson Pederson from her home. Pederson, who was pregnant, was stabbed at least 21 times with a butcher knife in an abandoned trailer on Horseshoe Road. Hargrove then took her to the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam and set her body on fire. Hargrove also returned to the Bennock Mill Road home where Pederson lived with her parents, Sharon and Andrew Hartley. Both were repeatedly stabbed. Andrew Hartley was also beaten with an ax handle.

One of the trial witnesses was a Richmond County Sheriff’s Office crime scene investigator, who described the crime scenes and provided bloodstain analysis testimony as the jury viewed photographs.

Hargrove’s hearing will continue Wednesdaywith an expert in forensic science who teaches university crime scene courses, which includes bloodstain analysis.

Hargrove’s appellate attorneys contend he was unfairly convicted because, among other alleged mistakes, evidence with withheld from his attorneys until trial

https://www.augustachronicle.com/news/20190326/augusta-man-on-death-row-for-triple-murder-has-post-conviction-hearing