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Georgia death row inmate to be executed after last-ditch appeal

Source: Georgia Department of Corrections

A Georgia clemency panel has voted against allowing a death row inmate, who is set to be executed later this week, to spend the rest of his days in prison.

Willie James Pye, 59, has been on death row for the last 28 years after being convicted of the kidnap, robbery, rape and murder of 21-year-old Alicia Lynn Yarbrough back in 1993.

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