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| Georgia to execute man for beating death over car keys |
| By yahoo.com- David Beasley |
| Published: 03/31/2016 |
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A man who was convicted of beating another man to death with a wooden closet rod in 1994 and also admitted to being involved in a second murder is due to be executed in Georgia on Thursday. Joshua Bishop, 41, is scheduled to die by injection at 7 p.m. EDT at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. His execution would be the third in Georgia this year and the 10th in the United States, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. In the Georgia case, Bishop told police he had wanted to take the car of a man who was sleeping inside a friend's mobile home after they had been out for a night of partying. He reached into the pocket of Leverett Morrison, 35, to take his car keys, but Morrison awoke and Bishop beat him with a rod, a court synopsis of the case said. Read More. |
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