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Secretive Georgia Clemency Board Suspends Execution After Its Conflicts of Interest Are Exposed (theintercept.com)

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ON THE SAME day the state of Georgia issued a death warrant for Stacey Ian Humphreys, setting his execution for December 17, Gov. Brian Kemp announced his latest appointment to the Board of Pardons and Parole, the five-member body that would ultimately decide whether Humphreys would live or die.

The new member was Kim McCoy, previously a victims’ advocate at the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office. As the head of the Victim Witness Unit for 25 years, she offered dedicated support to victims’ family members “in capital cases and select high-profile cases,” according to her official bio.

One of those cases was Humphreys’s.

McCoy was not the only board member with a connection to Humphreys’s case. Vice Chair Wayne Bennett was the Glynn County sheriff at the time of the trial, tasked with overseeing security and transportation for the sequestered jury — as well as Humphreys himself. To Humphreys’s attorneys, Bennett’s proximity to the victims, jurors, and defendant throughout the trial was too close for comfort. Under the board’s ethics rules, members are obligated to avoid even the appearance of bias. It was obvious to the lawyers that both McCoy and Bennett should recuse themselves from the clemency hearing. Yet there was no sign they planned to to so.

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[–] RottenHeads@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't sound good at all

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

"Doing a human sacrifice every so often is good for the poll numbers, but let's hurry it up and not spend too much money on that prison thing, it's not like it really matters who we kill." - pro-death politicians (basically)