Georgia executed a prisoner Wednesday night for the first time since January 2020 after the Supreme Court denied the delay earlier in the day.
Willie James Pye was executed at 11:03 p.m. Wednesday by lethal injection for the 1993 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Alicia Lynn Yarbrough, according to Georgia’s Department of Corrections.
He accepted a “final prayer and did not record a final statement,” according to the advisory.
Pye filed for a delay of his execution late Wednesday evening, arguing that the state has denied him due process and equal protection of the laws…
