Willie Pye becomes first person executed in Georgia in four years
by Michelle Del Rey
Mar 21, 2024
2 minutes
Willie James Pye has become the first person to be executed in Georgia in four years.
The 59-year-old was sentenced to death for the 1993 murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, rape and burglary of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. He was put to death by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson on Wednesday evening, and pronounced dead at 11.03pm.
It was the 76th execution carried out in
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