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| Carlton Gary could be executed within weeks |
| By ledger-enquirer.com |
| Published: 12/02/2009 |
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The Stocking Strangler could be dead by Christmas. Now that the United States Supreme Court thrice has rejected appeals from the man convicted in a string of murders that terrorized Columbus’ Wynnton area in the late 1970s, Carlton Gary’s time on Georgia’s death row is running out. Authorities say the next step is for a Muscogee Superior Court judge to issue a death warrant giving the Georgia Department of Corrections a specific time frame in which to set an execution date. “It’s usually a seven-day window,” said Joan Heath, public affairs director for the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department then schedules the execution within that period. “We’ll send out a press release announcing the date,” Heath said. The tricky part could be finding a local Superior Court judge who in decades past has not played some role either in Gary’s prosecution or defense. The U.S. Supreme Court will send the case back to Columbus, where the judge who tried the case normally would set a time frame for Gary’s execution. But Judge Kenneth Followill, who presided at Gary’s trial in 1986, retired a year ago. The case then would go to the senior judge in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit. But that’s Judge John Allen, who in private practice briefly represented Gary after police tracked the suspect down in 1984. Next in line is Judge Doug Pullen. But he was one of the prosecutors in Gary’s case. Read More. |
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