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Warren King Georgia Death Row

Warren King was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a robbery murder. According to court documents Warren King and Walter Smith approved a convenience store clerk as she was leaving a store. The woman gave the two men the keys to the store and when Walter Smith walked into the store the alarm sounded and he ran. Warren King would shoot the woman before fleeing. Warren King and Walter Smith would be arrested and convicted. Warren King would be sentenced to death

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Warren King 2021 Information

YOB: 1976
RACE: BLACK
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’07”
WEIGHT: 114
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 surveillance camera videotape and witness testimony identifying the persons recorded on the videotape showed that on the night of September 13, 1994, King and his cousin, Walter Smith, visited a convenience store in Surrency, Georgia, at approximately 10:45 p.m.

Smith testified that he found King later that night and that King suggested they rob the convenience store. Smith had previously obtained a .380 caliber handgun from a relative’s home, and, according to Smith’s testimony, King took the handgun from the seat of Smith’s vehicle and carried it with him as the two parked and walked to the convenience store.

Shortly after midnight on September 14, 1994, Karen Crosby, an employee of the convenience store, set the store’s alarm, locked the door, and walked toward her automobile. King and Smith confronted her in the store’s parking lot, and King ordered her at gunpoint to “give it up.” Crosby recognized King and spoke to him by name.

Crosby then threw her keys to Smith, who entered the convenience store as King continued to hold Crosby at gunpoint. The store’s surveillance camera recorded Smith entering the store, the sounding of the store’s alarm, Smith running from the store, and, approximately twenty-four seconds later, the sound of two gunshots.

King testified, during the sentencing phase, that Smith yelled at him repeatedly to shoot Crosby but that he, instead, handed the gun to Smith. However, Smith testified that, as he was running from the store, he heard the two shots, turned, and saw Crosby falling to the ground. Smith also testified that, as he and King were fleeing the scene, King exclaimed, “I hope I killed the bitch.”

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts, this Court finds that the evidence introduced at trial was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt that King was guilty of the crimes of which he was convicted and that the aforementioned statutory aggravating circumstances existed; also, the evidence was such that a rational trier of fact would be authorized to find that King had failed to show beyond a reasonable doubt that he was mentally retarded. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979); Pittman v. State, 269 Ga. 419, 420 (499 SE2d 62) (1998); OCGA 17-10-30 (b) (2), (4), (6); 17-7-131 (c) (3).

https://casetext.com/case/king-v-warden-ga-diagnostic-prison

Jerry Jones Georgia Death Row

Jerry Jones was sentenced to death by the State of Georgia for a quadruple murder. According to court documents Jerry Jones would go to the home of the victim demanding to know where his girlfriend was. Jerry Jones would bound the first victim with duct tape before taping her mouth shut, put a bag over her head and shoved her in a closet. Jerry Jones would shoot and kill the next door neighbor Tom Blaylock outside of his home before entering the neighbors home and killing his wife (the neighbors were step parents to Jones girlfriend. Jerry Jones would murder his ten month old daughter by strangling her with a phone cord. Jerry Jones would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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Jerry Jones 2021 Information

YOB: 1972
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 5’07”
WEIGHT: 165
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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The jury returned a verdict of death on all charges in the case of Jerry Jones Jr. after about six hours of deliberation over two days.

One juror cried when asked by Judge Carey Nelson if she agreed to the verdicts and one member of Tom Blaylocks family was escorted out when she began to cry when the verdict was read. Melissa Peeler showed no emotion as the verdict was read.

The jury sent Nelson a question regarding how a vote of life without possibility of parole would affect a vote of death on another count shortly after they convened on Friday.

Jones pleaded guilty to four counts of murder in the January 2004 slayings of Georgia Mae Bradley, Tom Blaylock, Nola Blaylock, and Jerri Georgia Jones.

Defense attorney Jack Martin told the judge any vote for the death penalty meant his client would be executed. Jones attorneys said they would not ask the jury to consider life with possibility of parole due to the horrendous nature of the crimes.

Jones admitted to going to the home of Georgia Mae Bradley on January 4, 2004, binding her arms with ducttape behind her back so he could question her why her sister and his long time girlfriend, Melissa Peeler, left him. He then cut her clothes off, taped her face with duct tape, strangled her, put a plastic bag over her head and shoved her a closet.

He then waited for Tom Blaylock to leave his home, next to Bradleys, shot him, covered the body with a tarp before going to the Blaylocks house and shooting Nola Blaylock three times. The couple was the mother and step-father of Peeler.

Jones also pleaded guilty to killing his 10-month-old daughter, Jerri Georgia Jones, by hanging her with an electrical cord.

According to testimony by the defenses expert witnesses, he said his original plan was to kill all of his children, then himself so they could be together in heave.

The defense tried to paint a picture of a mentally ill man, born into a family of violent and mentally ill members. The prosecution tried to show Jones as just plain mean, by pointing out that he wrote Peeler while he was in prison describing how her baby died and telling her if she had been there, she could have saved her baby. Peeler was in another state when the murders occurred.

The jury was charged at 3:20 p.m. on Thursday.

Closing arguments began a day earlier than projected. The trail as a whole has gone faster than earlier predicted. District Attorney Joe C. Campbell had predicted the trial to last a month. It is now in its third week.

The prosecution finished their closing arguments before the judge ordered a lunch recess. Campbell told the jurors that the defense was presenting the tower of babble by bringing in psychiatrists and social workers to show the history of mental illness and violence in Jerry Jones family.

They want you to believe that family history makes it okay to kill four people, said Campbell. He put the darkness in the Blaylock family.

He told the jurors that Dr. Janet Vogelsang, the clinical social worker that the defense brought in, was a hired gun who make $600,000 off of death penalty cases.

The defense will present their closing arguments after court reconvenes today.

For reasons not disclosed, both sides in the death-penalty trail of Jerry William Jones, Jr, decided not to present any further evidence in the case. The defense had originally planned to call an expert witness to testify about the effects the death penalty has on surviving family members.

Closing arguments began around 10:35 a.m. with District Attorney Joe Campbell telling the jury to consider the evidence to make a decision.

You are the voice of the community, he said.

On Wednesday, the jurors heard testimony from two expert witnesses, who stated that the history of mental illness and neglect contributed to his delusional state.

Were not saying he was legally insane, but something wrong was going on in brain, said Martin.

Wednesday Dr. Janet Vogelsang and Dr. Richard Roberts testified to the history of mental illness in his family and that the mental illness in Jones was so severe that he should have been kept in a mental hospital for a year instead of a month, referring to two stints he did in a mental hospital as a teenager.

Vogelsang detailed the history of gun violence and domestic violence that began with Jones great-grandmother, and passed through his grandmother, mother, himself and his half-sister.

On Tuesday, the jury heard testimony from family members who asked them to spare Jones life because they loved him and believed there was some good in him.

Jones admitted to killing Georgia Mae Bradley first on January 4, 2004. The cause of death was strangulation. He duct-taped her hands behind her back, cut her clothes off, and fashioned a mask of duct-tape to her face before strangling her and putting her in the closet. The prosecution tried to convince the jury that the crime met the requirements of aggravating circumstances needed to justify the death penalty. Jones then admitted to waiting until he saw Tom Blaylock and shot him once, close to under his arm, killing him.

Jones then said he went to the Blaylocks home and shot Nola Blaylock three times, before strangling 10-month-old Jerri Georgia Jones with an electrical cord.

The prosecution had to prove the crimes involved torture, and the murder was inhuman and vile.

The jury can hand a sentence down of death, life without possibility of parole or life with possibility of parole. The defense said they would not ask the jury to consider life with possibility of parole.

I do believe there is no worse crime than to kill your own child, said Martin, but I cant ignore the mental illness, nor can you.

https://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/jerry-jones-receives-death-penalty-for-quadruple-murde-local-new/article_0fc76af3-2eaf-5e10-badf-f6103f516557.html

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.