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Georgia Scheduled To Execute Man Who Killed Sheriff's Deputy
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In a 5-to-2 ruling, the Georgia Supreme Court says it will not stay the execution of a man who killed a sheriff’s deputy.
Robert Wayne Holsey's execution is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied his request for clemency Monday.
Holsey was convicted of the 1995 shooting death of a Baldwin County sheriff’s deputy during a convenience store robbery.
Holsey’s attorney had argued in Butts County court that he should get a life sentence instead because of intellectual disability.
When he was a teenager, Holsey IQ tested around 70. In denying Holsey’s stay of execution, the high court let stand a ruling by the county court that his intellectual disability was not proven “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Holsey’s attorneys argued that “beyond a reasonable doubt” is a higher standard of proof than is used by other states, most of which use the less stringent “preponderance of the evidence.”
Contributors: Associated Press
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