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Spears Becomes Eighth Georgian Executed in 2016
By patch.com- Doug Gross
Published: 11/17/2016

JACKSON, GA — Steven Frederick Spears on Wednesday night became the eighth Georgian put to death by lethal injection in 2016.

Spears, 54, had been convicted of murder in the 2001 strangling death of his ex-girlfriend in Lumpkin County.

His death penalty sentence was carried out at 7:30 p.m. at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

Spears refused a final prayer and declined to make a final statement, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.

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