A mil­i­tary jury unan­i­mous­ly vot­ed for a death sen­tence for U.S. Airman Andrew Witt in Georgia on October 13, 2005 fol­low­ing his con­vic­tion in the mur­ders of anoth­er mil­i­tary offi­cer and his spouse. The mur­ders took place at Robins Air Force Base and stemmed from an inter­per­son­al dis­pute. The ver­dict and sen­tence now go before Maj. Gen. Michael Collings, com­man­der of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center at Robins. Collings has the author­i­ty to uphold or mod­i­fy the ver­dict and sentence. 

(Macon Telegraph, Oct. 14, 2005). There are 8 oth­er peo­ple on the mil­i­tary death row, only one of whom, like Witt, is white.

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