The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is the only authority in Georgia that can commute a death sentence. Cromartie insists he didn’t shoot either clerk, and his lawyers have pushed for DNA testing of evidence to prove that. The state argues none of the DNA evidence he seeks would prove his innocence. A judge last month declined Cromartie’s requests for DNA testing and a new trial. In a June letter to state lawyers expressing support for DNA testing, she wrote: “My father’s death was senseless.

Source: thestar October 23, 2019 17:15 UTC