Board suspends scheduled execution of Cobb County death row prisoner
Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles considers a clemency application.
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Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles considers a clemency application.
A federal judge in Georgia has declined to halt an execution scheduled for next week.
Lawyers for a man facing execution in Georgia argue that an agreement related to the COVID-19 pandemic should protect him from being put to death for now.
Georgia prison officials have scheduled an execution for Stacey Humphreys, who was convicted of killing two real estate agents in 2003.
One Marietta teacher says her class's state test scores have increased by an average of nearly 20 points since the cell phone ban began.
The music at Atlanta's Morris Brown College stopped in 2002, but two decades later, the school is hoping "the best band in the land" will march again.
Cathy Grossu, the mother-in-law of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, said she had seen the family a day before the fatal crash.
It's been over a week since an acid attack left Ashley Wasielewski with third-degree burns covering nearly half her body, and officials are trying to identify her attacker.
A Fulton County Schools police officer has been taken off duty and is under investigation after officials say he used a Taser on a student on a school bus.