Georgia executes man for 1995 murder of sheriff's deputy, official says

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia on Tuesday executed a death-row inmate convicted of murdering a sheriff's deputy after a convenience store robbery in 1995, the state attorney general said in a statement. Robert Wayne Holsey, 49, was put to death by lethal injection at 10:51 p.m. EST, state Attorney General Sam Olens said in a statement. Holsey's attorneys had argued his execution should be halted because he was mentally disabled and received inadequate representation from a lawyer who drank heavily at the time of his trial, but the U.S. Supreme Court denied their request for a stay of execution. ...



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