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Jan 5, 2025 | chronicle-tribune.com | Christopher Weber |Jeff Martin |Kevin McGill

Mar 20, 2024 | chronicle-tribune.com | Jeff Martin |Jeff Martin

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man convicted of the killing of his former girlfriend three decades ago was put to death Wednesday evening in the state’s first execution in more than four years. Willie James Pye, 59, received an injection of the sedative pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. He was sentenced to die for his conviction in the November 1993 abduction, rape and shooting death of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. kAm!J6 H2D 2D<65 3J E96 H2C56?

Feb 23, 2024 | chronicle-tribune.com | Jeff Amy |Sharon Johnson |Jeff Martin |Sharon Johnson |Jeff Martin

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police said Friday that they have identified and are questioning a “person of interest” in the death of a nursing student found dead on the University of Georgia campus after not returning from a run. There “continues to be an active, ongoing investigation” by university police and other agencies into the death of 22-year-old Laken Hope Riley, University of Georgia spokesperson James Hataway said in a statement.