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title: 'NEW RESOURCE: Report Examines Three Decades of Georgia Death Penalty Cases'
description: 'The Georgia Public Defender Standards Council has published an analysis of death penalty cases in the state during the past 30 years. The report was…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-resource-report-examines-three-decades-of-georgia-death-penalty-cases'
section: news
date: '2006-01-18T20:44:04-05:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:24:10-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
---

The [Georgia Public Defender Standards Council](https://www.bakersfieldpersonalinjurylawfirm.com/public-defender-news-and-resources-by-state/) has published an analysis of death penalty cases in the state during the past 30 years. The report was written by Michael Mears, Director of the Council. The review examines the modern history of Georgia's death penalty, and provides data sorted in a number of ways, including by county, circuit, and defendant. It also provides the following summary of the dispositions of Georgia's death penalty cases:

DISPOSITION OF GEORGIA DEATH PENALTY CASES  
 July 1973 - July 2003

NUMBER OF CASES  
 DISPOSITION  
 18  
 Acquittal  
 3  
 Dismissed  
 328  
 Death Sentence  
 23  
 Lesser Included Offense  
 222  
 Life Sentence with the Possibility of Parole  
 145  
 Life Sentence without the Possibility of Parole (LWOP)  
 1  
 Dead Docket  
 95  
 Pending Cases  
 835  
 GRAND TOTAL  
 Note: These figures are with respect to initial trials and do NOT reflect changes in dispositions resulting from retrials.

Data for this project was collected by the Multi-County Public Defender Office, which was created in 1992 by the Georgia General Assembly and the Georgia Supreme Court. The Multi-County Public Defender Office became the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender on January 1, 2005. (M. Mears, "Thirty Years Analysis of Death Penalty Cases in Georgia," (2005)). See [Resources ](/getcat.php?cid=5)and [Sentencing.](/death-penalty-sentencing-information?did=895&scid=67)