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Georgia Parole Board Denies Clemency To Man Sentenced to Death
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The Georgia Parole Board has denied clemency to a man scheduled to be executed Thursday.
His clemency hearing wrapped up late Wednesday.
GPB's Sophia Saliby has more on a hearing that wrapped up late Wednesday.
Scotty Garnell Morrow was convicted of murder in the deaths of two women nearly 25 years ago.
His lawyers argued that spontaneous, emotional murders are typically not punished by death.
The parole board is the only authority in Georgia that can commute a death sentence.
His execution is scheduled for Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.
Morrow will be the first prisoner executed in Georgia this year.
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