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Date: 03-20-2024
Case Style:
Case Number: S98P0612
Judge: Not Available
Court: Superior Court, Fulton County, Georgia
Plaintiff's Attorney: Fulton County District Attorney's Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyers have represented William James Pye, age 59, who was accused of first-degree capital murder for killing Alicia Lynn Yarbrough in November 1993.
A jury found Willie James Pye guilty of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, rape, armed robbery, and burglary. For the murder, the jury recommended a death sentence, finding as four separate statutory aggravating circumstances that Pye had committed that crime while engaged in the commission of the offenses of kidnapping [269 Ga. 780] with bodily injury, rape, armed robbery, and burglary. OCGA § 17-10-30(b)(2).
Outcome: The defendant was convicted and sentenced to death.
The Georgia Parole Board rejected clemency for the intellectually disabled Defendant who has an IQ of 68.
Plaintiff's Experts:
Defendant's Experts:
Comments: Editor's Note: The death penalty is not, never had been, and will never be good public policy.