Execution of a mentally disabled person in America
| The US state of Georgia executed a convicted person named "Willie Pye", who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a woman in 1993. |
The Georgia Department of Corrections announced in a statement on Thursday that Willie Pye, the first execution in the state of Georgia in more than four years, was executed by lethal injection at 11:03 p.m. at a prison in the south. Atlanta done.
Willie Pye, 59, was executed late Wednesday by the US Supreme Court after his latest appeal was rejected. In a clemency petition and various court cases, Willie Pye and his lawyers had argued for his life to be spared, citing mental retardation, parenting problems and the ineffective assistance of counselors.
Willie Pie
According to the Non-Governmental Center for Information on the Death Penalty, Willie Pye’s execution is the first in the state of Georgia since January 2020. The American Bar Association has said that executions were halted there as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 1996, Willie Pye was convicted of murder, kidnapping with grievous bodily harm, armed robbery and rape in the case of the murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough.
Source: ISNA
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