Entries tagged with “Virgil Presnell”

Jun 09, 2025

Georgia Superior Court Judge Upholds 2021 COVID-Era Agreement Barring Executions for Nine Prisoners

On May 29, 2025, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram ruled that Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr must abide by a 2021 agree­ment reached with attor­neys for nine indi­vid­u­als cur­rent­ly on Georgia’s death row that bars their exe­cu­tions until COVID-19 vac­cines are avail­able to every­one. In 2021, the state agreed to halt exe­cu­tions until vac­cines were avail­able to all mem­bers of the pub­lic. In her rul­ing, Judge Ingram not­ed that the vac­cine is not approved for…

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Sep 24, 2020

Eleventh Circuit Upholds Death Sentences, Absolves Failures by Court-Appointed Counsel in Three Georgia Death-Penalty Cases

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has denied habeas cor­pus relief to three Georgia death-row pris­on­ers in a series of opin­ions that nar­row­ly inter­pret­ed the scope of a defendant’s right to effec­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tion in the penal­ty phase of a cap­i­tal tri­al. The deci­sions, issued in unre­lat­ed cas­es over the course of 36 hours on September 15 and 16, 2020, absolved court-appoint­ed coun­sel of sig­nif­i­cant failures in…