A Walton County man who shot and then savagely beat a 70-year-old man to death will be executed the night of Dec. 8, state authorities said Monday.
If the execution goes off as planned, Brian Keith Terrell, 47, would become the second inmate executed in Georgia in 19 days.
The state Department of Corrections announced the date Monday, saying a Superior Court judge had signed a death warrant for Terrell not long after the execution of Marcus Ray Johnson, who was killed by lethal injection on Nov. 19.
Terrell killed John Watson, a man Terrell's mother had befriended and was helping with meals, errands and trips to dialysis treatment.
Terrell had stolen a number of blank checks from Watson and cashed several, and the older man gave him an out: pay me back, and that'll be the end of it. Terrell chose a different path.
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