Parole board denies clemency for Georgia death row inmate Stacey Humphreys ahead of execution

Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency for death inmate Stacey Humphreys a day before his scheduled execution.

Humphreys is scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

In a release on Tuesday, the board said that it made the decision "after thoroughly considering all the facts and circumstances of the case"

The ruling comes days after Humphreys' attorneys filed a notice of appeal asking the Georgia Supreme Court to review Cobb County Superior Court Judge Tyler Browning's Sept. 10 decision that denied him a new trial, according to court records reviewed by CBS News Atlanta.

The appeal concerns Humphreys' extraordinary motion for a new trial and related court rulings. His attorneys requested that the appellate record include evidence and a transcript from a Sept. 10 hearing.

He was sentenced to death for the 2003 murders of real estate agents Cyndi Williams, 33, and Lori Brown, 21. Evidence presented at trial showed that Humphreys forced the women to give him their bank PINs before shooting them and withdrawing more than $3,000 from their accounts.

Humphreys' execution was previously scheduled for December 2025, but the State Board of Pardons and Paroles suspended it while considering a clemency application.

The Georgia Supreme Court has jurisdiction over the new appeal because the case involves a death sentence, the filing states.