Court upholds killer’s death sentence
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the death sentence against a man who killed a woman and her 14-year-old son in their east Cobb County home.
Lawrence Rice sits on death row for the April 17, 2003, killings of Connie Mincher and her son, Ethan, a Pope High School freshman. The two victims sustained multiple wounds that a medical examiner found to be consistent with being struck repeatedly by a hatchet. Rice had a longstanding vendetta against Mincher’s husband, who once employed Rice at an Atlanta video company, prosecutors said.
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Bill Rankin has been an AJC reporter for more than 30 years. His father, Jim Rankin, worked as an editor for the newspaper for 26 years, retiring in 1986. Bill has primarily covered the state’s court system, doing all he can do to keep the scales of justice on an even keel. Since 2015, he has been the host of the newspaper’s Breakdown podcast.
