The Latest on the scheduled execution of Georgia inmate Gregory Paul Lawler (all times local):5:25 p.m.Court challenges are still pending for a man facing scheduled execution, condemned for the 1997 killing of an Atlanta police officer. He was convicted in the October 1997 shooting death of Officer John Sowa and in the critically wounding of Officer Patricia Cocciolone. Gregory Paul Lawler, 63, is set to die by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital on Wednesday evening. He was convicted in the October 1997 slaying of Officer John Sowa and for critically wounding Officer Patricia Cocciolone. Georgia executed five inmates last year and five in 1987.

Source: Fox News October 19, 2016 21:33 UTC