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| Georgia Inmate Executed for 1984 Rape, Murder of 11-year-Old Girl |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/14/2001 |
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A man convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in 1984 was executed by injection in Georgia Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeals. Byron Ashley Parker, 41, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at the state prison here, about 50 miles south of Atlanta. Parker was convicted of luring Christie Ann Griffith to a secluded area, raping her and strangling her. Prosecutors said the girl was on her way to her brother's high school graduation. Prosecutors also said Parker left his 2-year-old son in a car nearby while he carried out the murder. Hours before the death sentence was carried out, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Parker a stay on grounds that the state parole board had given him a tainted clemency hearing because of conflicts of interest. His attorneys argued that one of the state parole board's five members is being defended in a sexual harassment case by the state attorney general's office, which also defends death sentences. Parker was Georgia's 27th execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1973, and the state's fourth in seven weeks -- the most in such a short time. |
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