PhotoTomorrow, the State of Georgia intends to execute William Sallie, who was convicted of killing a man in 1990. It would be Georgia’s ninth execution this year, a modern state record and nearly twice the previous high-water mark of five executions, set first in 1987 and again in 2015. I served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Georgia for over 15 years. Mr. Sallie’s case is a prime example. (She omitted vital, likely disqualifying information, including striking similarities between her traumatic history of divorce and interstate child custody fights and the domestic strife at the center of Mr. Sallie’s case.)

Source: New York Times December 05, 2016 08:21 UTC