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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.

Dekelvin Martin Georgia Death Row

DeKelvin Martin was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a triple murder. According to court documents DeKelvin Martin would sexually assault his girlfriend, then proceed to stab her child and her elderly grandparents all of which would die from their injuries. DeKelvin Martin would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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DeKelvin Martin 2021 Information

YOB: 1972
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’06”
WEIGHT: 152
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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Viewed in the light most favorable to the State, the evidence presented at trial, drawn largely from Tymika Wright’s testimony, showed the following set of facts. DeKelvin Martin had been dating his girlfriend, Tymika Wright, for approximately five years, and they were living with Ms. Wright’s elderly grandparents, Travis and Ila Ivery, along with Ms. Wright’s 12–year–old son from a prior marriage, Savion Wright, and the 2–year–old son she had with Martin, Christin Wright.² On the night and early morning of September 30 to October 1, 2002, Martin consumed a large quantity of alcohol, some powder cocaine, and then some crack cocaine.

At about 1:30 a.m., DeKelvin Martin tapped on Ms. Wright’s window, and she let him in through the kitchen door. Martin told Ms. Wright that he wanted to speak to her about something, he went into the den and sat on the couch, and she sat in front of him in a chair. He told her that he wanted to move back to his hometown, Fitzgerald, Georgia. He then asked her if she wanted to have sex. She said, “no,” but offered to make him something to eat. He said that he was not hungry, but he went with her to the kitchen to look at the food that she had left from the family dinner that he had missed earlier. As she was preparing the food, he took a knife from the dishwasher, grabbed her, told her that he would kill everyone in the house if she said anything, dragged her into the den, and pushed her onto the couch. She reminded him that he previously had vowed not to act like that and reassured him that her grandparents were not angry that he had been out late. He apologized and placed the knife on the side of the couch, and she talked him into turning on the television and then hid the knife under a pillow in her bedroom. Savion got up from bed and came into the hallway, and Martin stood in the doorway from the den to the hallway and greeted him. Ms. Wright sent Savion back to bed and turned around to find Martin making a face, standing close to her, and “acting paranoid and nervous.” She asked him if he was on drugs, but he denied that he was. She decided to try to calm him by making conversation and by again reassuring him that no one had a problem with his having come home at 1:30 a.m.

Ms. Wright failed to calm DeKelvin Martin, he again asked her for sex, and she agreed in the hope that he would go to sleep afterward. She asked him if she could turn a light on, but he said that she would “regret it” if she did. They were “on the floor” and “started to have sex,” but a light came on in the hallway in the back of the house. Ms. Wright got up, she found Ms. Ivery in the hallway, she helped Ms. Ivery to the bathroom, and then Ms. Ivery went back to bed. Martin and Ms. Wright then “started again” having sex, but the hallway was illuminated when Savion left his bedroom at the back of the house and turned on the light in the bathroom near his room. After Savion went back to bed, DeKelvin Martin and Ms. Wright again “started to have sex, but [he] couldn’t keep an erection.” He accused her of cheating on him or having something wrong with her, but she denied the accusations. He then called her names and told her that she “smelled like [she had] been with somebody else.” She laughed and explained that she had been at the house all day.

DeKelvin Martin and Ms. Wright were at this point still on the floor in the den. He told her to turn around, she turned around and got on her knees to stand, and he grabbed her around the neck and began choking her. She broke away from him, told him that he would have to leave the house, began walking down the hallway toward her bedroom to retrieve her car keys, and called for Savion. Martin came toward her fast in the hallway, she tried to hold a door shut to keep him away from her, she screamed for Savion to get up and call the police, her grip on the door began slipping, she screamed for Mr. and Ms. Ivery to help her, and Martin snatched the door from her grip. Martin walked slowly past Ms. Wright, grabbed Savion near the door to his bedroom, and started stabbing Savion in the neck as Savion tried to break free.³ Ms. Wright got between Martin and Savion, and Martin stabbed her in the back and cut her face as he tried to pursue Savion. Ms. Wright continued to scream for Mr. and Ms. Ivery.

Martin pursued Savion, who had fled to the bathroom. Ms. Ivery, bracing herself because she was barely able to stand given her medical condition, tried to block Martin in the bathroom doorway as he reached past her trying to stab Savion, stabbing Ms. Ivery in the process. Ms. Ivery called for Mr. Ivery, prompting Martin to stab her more. Ms. Wright told Savion to run, but he collapsed to the floor after three or four steps and then made a gurgling sound. As Ms. Wright and Ms. Ivery struggled with Martin, Mr. Ivery came out of his room, he grabbed Martin, and Martin began stabbing him. Martin then pushed Mr. Ivery backwards onto his bed, straddled over the top of him, and stabbed him repeatedly in the chest. Ms. Wright reached for the telephone, but Martin cut the telephone cord. Ms. Wright ran for another telephone, but she stopped when she saw Martin standing over Christin and Savion with a knife. After Christin laid his head over Savion, Martin began running back and forth between Mr. and Ms. Ivery and stabbing them. Ms. Ivery begged Martin to stop stabbing her and just let her die, but he continued to stab her.

DeKelvin Martin took Ms. Wright by the hand and took her into another room, while Christin held her leg and she begged for her life. Martin told her that she had to perform oral sex on him if she wanted to live and pushed her to her knees as he held a knife to her head and as Christin continued to hold onto her leg. After she submitted to oral sex with him, he demanded vaginal sex. At that point, she was “trying to do anything that he’s saying,” but he did not respond when she offered him some food as a distraction. However, Martin agreed to leave the house when Ms. Wright offered to give him money from Mr. Ivery’s wallet. At this point, Ms. Wright was still unclothed. After first trying to clean blood off of Ms. Wright’s face in a bathroom sink, Martin and Ms. Wright got into the shower together to clean her. Martin disassembled a cellular telephone when he discovered that Ms. Ivery was attempting to use it.

DeKelvin Martin then ordered Ms. Wright into her vehicle, although Ms. Wright insisted that Christin stay behind. Ms. Wright failed to get the attention of a police officer when the vehicle was stopped at a routine police roadblock. DeKelvin Martin later allowed Ms. Wright to call 911 on a payphone, because Christin had been left in the house unattended. Martin directed her to drive in various directions, directed her to begin driving to a recreation center, told her that he was going to let her go, told her to stop at a gas station on the way, and then walked away from the vehicle with her still seated inside.

In response to Ms. Wright’s earlier 911 call and a 911 call from Ms. Ivery, police officers and paramedics discovered Christin crawling around near Savion’s lifeless body. Mr. Ivery was gasping for air and died as he was being transported to the hospital. Ms. Ivery was having trouble breathing, was transported to the hospital, remained in the hospital for three months, and died a month after her release as a result of complications from her stab wounds.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1717100.html

Pablo Maldonado Georgia Death Row

Pablo Maldonado was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a brutal murder. According to court documents Pablo Maldonado would meet the victim at church and the victim would offer him a job. Pablo Maldonado would pay him back by killing him. According to police reports the victim, Timothy Clements, would be struck several times with a metal bat and hammer before being tied up and thrown into a creek. Pablo Maldonado would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Pablo Maldonado 2021 Information

YOB: 1986
RACE: UNKNOWN
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’06”
WEIGHT: 168
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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What started on June 11, 2009 with the murder of 53-year-old Tim Clements, ended Thursday afternoon when a jury imposed the death penalty on the alleged ringleader, 25-year-old Pablo Maldonado.

Jurors listened to Maldonado’s family the latter part of Tuesday and all day Wednesday tell of his life as a young boy in Mexico, all saying that he was unwanted, unloved and neglected.

“He was raised like a little animal,” his cousin Xochitl Morales testified. “The people who were supposed to take care of him didn’t care for him, so he didn’t understand what love was.”

During closing Thursday morning, District Attorney Layla Zon told jurors that the murder of Clements was vile, inhuman, depraved and premeditated.

“This man lost his life for nothing,” she said. “I don’t think the human heart or the human mind is made to understand this type of evil.”

Zon told jurors not to feel guilty about giving Pablo Maldonado the death penalty if they thought it was warranted.

“He is a depraved human being whose life certainly has value, but here is why we’re here today, because everyone’s life has value… God gave him life just like he did Tim Clements. The difference is, Tim Clements valued this man’s life, he invested in this man’s life… showed him acts of kindness and respect…the only tears you saw in the courtroom is when he’s feeling sorry for himself… Don’t let the defendant try to make you feel guilty…because of the defendant’s actions…we are here today to administer a punishment. Today is a day for judgment. Today is a day for consequences to be paid for his actions… This is not one of these cases you’ll be sitting, 20 years from now, wondering if you made the right decision.”

Defense attorney Stephen Yekel suggested to jurors that they could sentence Maldonado to live with the possibility of parole and he would not be eligible for 30 years, or life without parole, which would keep him in jail for the rest of his life.

“Nobody can justify for taking a human life unless it’s a case of self-defense and you were told from day one this wasn’t that type of case…it wasn’t just Mr. Maldonado, it was other people involved… You have to make a determination if this 25-year-old man should be killed… This is such an ultimate decision that you can’t change later.”

Yekel told jurors that all life was valuable, “Is everybody’s life valuable? Yes. Was Mr. Clements life valuable? No doubt about it… the question is, does this bring it to a different level?”

“Each one of you… have to make that decision, as to what the punishment is. And it’s whether Mr. Maldonado, who always wanted to be free and running the countryside, is going to be in prison for the rest of his life…or whether he should be strapped on that gurney and his life taken from him…do we kill that 25-year-old man? Or do we give him the hope of living his life…in a cell, for the rest of his life. Where he’ll die, where he’ll never see the light of day… he’ll be locked away and forgotten until he finally takes his last breath.”

The jurors answered Yekel’s question at 2:40 p.m., after deliberating for a little over two hours.

In addition to death, Judge Horace Johnson gave Maldonado additional sentences of life plus 25 years for the other charges he was found guilty of armed robbery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, concealing the death of another and second degree forgery.

“I extend my appreciation to the jurors for their time and consideration of this case,” said Zon. “Tim Clements was a good man, a man I wish I could have met. Hopefully the conclusion of this case will bring some closure to his family, at least with respect to the judicial process. The Newton County Sheriff’s Office and the GBI should both be commended for their work on this investigation.”

https://www.covnews.com/news/maldonado-gets-death-penalty/

James Lee Georgia Death Row

James Lee was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for the murder of his stepmother. According to court documents James Lee and an accomplice broke into a gun store and stole a number of firearms. The two then made a plan to murder James Lee father and steal his truck. However when they arrived at the residence his father was gone however his stepmother was home. James Lee girlfriend would lure the victim from the home by telling her she had car problems. When the victim, Sharon Chancey, pulled up to the vehicle she was shot in the face by James Lee. The trio would steal the woman’s car and headed to Florida. Jame Lee would be arrested for a broken tail light and when officers found out the vehicle was stolen he was arrested. James Lee would be extradited back to Georgia where he stood trial for the murder which he was found guilty and sentenced to death.

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James Lee 2021 Information

YOB: 1974
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 6’00”
WEIGHT: 220
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 authorized the jury to find the following: James Lee and an accomplice broke into a gun store on May 25, 1994, and stole several guns, including a ten millimeter Glock pistol. Afterwards, James Lee and his girl friend decided to drive to Pierce County to kill Lee’s father and steal his father’s Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. When Lee learned that his father was not home, he decided to kill his father’s live-in girl friend, Sharon Chancey. In the early morning hours of May 26, 1994, Lee’s girl friend lured the victim from the house by claiming that her Toyota had broken down nearby. When Ms. Chancey pulled up to the Toyota in the Silverado and got out, Lee shot her in the face and threw her in the back of the pickup. Lee then drove the truck to a secluded area in Charlton County. After dragging Ms. Chancey into the woods, Lee reached down to strip two rings from her. She was still alive, and grabbed his arm. James Lee responded by shooting her two more times and killing her.

After swapping the Silverado and Toyota license plates, James Lee and his girl friend drove to Florida in the pickup truck. While in Florida, Lee made several incriminating remarks to friends and his girl friend’s sister. At about 11:30 p.m. on May 26, 1994, Lee was stopped for a broken taillight and, after a check revealed that the Silverado was stolen, he was arrested. The ten millimeter Glock pistol was recovered from the Silverado, and this gun was determined by a firearms expert to be the murder weapon. The police also found Ms. Chancey’s purse and identification in the Silverado. James Lee gave several incriminating statements to various law enforcement officials in Florida and Georgia, including a videotaped confession at the crime scenes in Charlton and Pierce counties.

The evidence was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find proof of Lee’s guilt of malice murder, felony murder, armed robbery, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony beyond a reasonable doubt. 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 four statutory aggravating circumstances which supported his death sentence for the murder. Jackson v. Virginia, supra; OCGA § 17-10-35(c)(2).

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ga-supreme-court/1358962.html