Georgia leads US in executions this year, set for ninth
Source: Associated Press
Kate Brumback, Associated Press
Updated 5:36 pm, Tuesday, December 6, 2016
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — Lawyers seeking to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of a man convicted of killing his father-in-law after a custody fight over a young son have argued a juror lied about her own messy relationship history and swayed fellow jurors to vote for a death sentence.
William Sallie should be granted a new trial because of the alleged juror bias, but courts haven't properly considered that evidence because he missed a filing deadline by eight days at a time when he didn't have a lawyer, his lawyers said in court filings.
The 50-year-old inmate, who was convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of John Lee Moore in March 1990, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Jackson.
After eight executions already, Georgia has put to death more people this year than any other state including Texas with seven.
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by: Rhonda Cook, AJC Updated: Dec 6, 2016 - 11:41 AM
ATLANTA - William Sallie, scheduled to be executed Tuesday for murdering his father-in-law 26 years ago, has put in his request for his last meal: pizza with sausage and pepperoni, chicken wings with buffalo sauce and a large soda.
The man Georgia executed most recently, Steven Spears, also requested pizza as his last meal before he was put to death on Nov. 16.
Sallie murdered John Moore as animosities intensified between Sallie and his wife’s family after she filed for divorce. Robin Sallie moved out of their house in December 1989 following an argument during which William Sallie struck her with a belt, prompting her to take their 2-year-old son to live with her parents, her sister and her brother.
Hostilities between the two were aggravated when William Sallie picked up his son one day under the pretense of visiting with him but instead took the child to Illinois. An Illinois judge ruled in March 1990 that Robin Sallie could take her son back to Alma in South Georgia.
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