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Branford News
April 21, 2018
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — A clemency hearing for the man condemned to die by lethal injection next month for the 1996 shotgun slaying of Donovan Corey Parks of Milledgeville is set for Wednesday, May 2 with the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles in Atlanta. Robert Earl Butts, Jr. is scheduled to beÃâà...
Patch.com
April 20, 2018
ATLANTA, GA — A man convicted of killing a Georgia corrections officer has been scheduled to become the second inmate in the state to be put to death by lethal ... Robert Earl Butts, Jr., 40, is set to be executed on Thursday, May 3, at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.
The Union-Recorder
April 19, 2018
The two men accused in the double-murder, Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose, are now inmates at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center near ... The special ceremony honoring Billue and Monica will be held at noon in the parking lot outside the Arnall Building on the campus of the state prison,Ãâà...
MyAJC
April 18, 2018
The two were among more than 30 inmates being transported to the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison before dawn on June 13. Rowe and Dubose allegedly freed themselves from their handcuffs and escaped from the caged area inside a prison transport van, then overpowered and killed Sgts.
ValdostaToday.com
April 18, 2018
FORSYTH, Ga. – The Baldwin County Superior Court has ordered the execution of convicted murderer Robert Earl Butts, Jr. The court ordered the Georgia ... Commissioner Gregory C. Dozier has set the date for Thursday, May 3, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7 p.m..
jacksonprogress-argus
March 23, 2018
Members of the Stark United Methodist Church Disaster Relief Team took part in cleanup efforts in Southeast Atlanta following recent tornadoes. Participating were Charles Holloway, Harold “Doc” McMichael, Lewis Washington, Phil Perry, Stanley Maddox, Butler Bostick, Roth Clinton, Bill Medley, PastorÃâà...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (blog)
March 18, 2018
As a first-timer, I did not know “Media Monitor” meant something else, until Kate told me, after the prison sent a van to get us from the media staging area out front of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, and from there take us to the employee cafeteria, where we were left with a pizza,Ãâà...
MyAJC
March 16, 2018
Georgia Department of Corrections Carlton Gary received the death penalty for killing three elderly women in Columbus, Ga., by strangling them with stockings. ... Gary's eyes were closed as witnesses filed into the execution chamber at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison near Jackson.
MyAJC
March 16, 2018
Gary, 67, was pronounced dead at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison near Jackson at 10:33 p.m. Thursday, almost 40 years after the discovery of the body of the last Stocking Strangler victim on April 20, 1978. Gary was executed for strangling three women with their own stockingsÃâà...
WLTZ 38 NBC
March 15, 2018
FORSYTH, Ga. – The execution of condemned murderer Carlton Michael Gary scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 15, 2018, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson was carried out on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 10:33 p.m. in accordance with state law. Gary did not accept a finalÃâà...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
March 15, 2018
The electric chair then was moved to the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, where executions resumed. Between 1924 and 1998, 441 Georgia inmates were executed by electrocution. Anticipating the courts' finding electrocution to be cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by theÃâà...
MyAJC
March 15, 2018
With his execution imminent, Georgia's “Stocking Strangler” asked the court for a new lawyer. Carlton Gary filed two handwritten legal appeals Thursday morning with the U.S. District Court in Columbus saying his attorney, Jack Martin, has cancer. He said Martin's failing health may have prevented theÃâà...
WJCL News
March 1, 2018
Couple who brutally attacked Baxley restaurant owner, teen daughter begin prison sentence. The attack last summer ... Nathaniel Smith will temporarily be housed at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson until his permanent prison assignment is determined. Latasha Smith wasÃâà...
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
February 28, 2018
Convicted serial killer Carlton Gary's death by lethal injection is to be 7 p.m. March 15 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. ... 24, 1950, Carlton Michael Gary is born in Columbus, Ga., where he lives until age 16, when he moves with his mother to Fort Myers, Fla., and laterÃâà...
Covington News
February 16, 2018
Melverne William Arthur, 24, 10302 Waterford Road, Covington, was arrested Feb. 11 and charged with no tail lights, possession of a Schedule I controlled substance, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and purchase/possession/manufacture/distribution/sale of marijuana.
41 NBC News
February 7, 2018
It's just you and one other man and it ain't but so much that two men can do in a little small cell,” Woodard adds. Woodard is from Bleckley County, Georgia and is incarcerated at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. He spends his days reading books. Thanks to Director of RecreationÃâà...
MyAJC
January 30, 2018
Jackson claims a Department of Corrections committee that routinely reviewed his circumstances has repeatedly said he should be transferred off the restrictive unit, known as Tier III, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Butts County, 50 miles south of Atlanta. Jackson's description of theÃâà...
MyAJC
December 8, 2017
Ben Gray/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution April 27, 2016 Jackson: The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson is where the ... on,” said Lindsay Hayes of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives who is an expert in preventing suicides at jails, prisons and juvenile facilities.
jacksonprogress-argus
December 7, 2017
A former employee of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison has been charged with sexual assault against two inmates. Lashondra Wyshell Watson, 34, of Jackson worked for just over five years at the prison as a store manager, Georgia Department of Corrections spokesperson Lori M. BenoitÃâà...
MyAJC
December 5, 2017
Now the extreme isolation Gumm faced at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson is the subject a lawsuit, which argues such ... Filed in federal court by the Southern Center for Human Rights, the legal complaint provides a detailed look into an area of the Georgia prison system thatÃâà...
jacksonprogress-argus
July 3, 2017
According to Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan, Durham was assigned to the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison for the entirety of his employment with the department, from September 2015 until October 2016. She said he resigned Oct. 25, 2016.
jacksonprogress-argus
December 31, 1999
Carlton Michael Gary's death sentence was carried out at 10:33 p.m. March 15 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison outside Jackson, according to the Georgia ... An appeal of that denial to the Georgia Supreme Court was also denied, as was a subsequent motion for reconsideration.
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
December 31, 1999
His execution is set for 7 p.m. March 15 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. ... A Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent bought a shoe matching the print, and kept a photocopy of the sole. It was ... Gary was arrested in Albany, Ga., on May 3, 1984, and brought back to Columbus.
WTVM
December 31, 1999
Commissioner Gregory Dozier has set the date for Thursday, March 15 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7 p.m.. Gary was convicted of brutally raping and killing seven elderly women in Columbus in the late 70's and 80's. He was set to be killed several years ago but a stayÃâà...
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