A week after carrying out the state's seventh execution of the year, Georgia has scheduled another man to die.
Steven Frederick Spears is scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 for murdering his ex-girlfriend, Sherri Holland, in 2001 in Lumpkin County.
According to the Georgia Attorney General’s Office, Spears, 54, is not appealing his conviction or death sentence. He will be the eighth person to die by lethal injection in Georgia if his execution is not stopped.
At 11:49 p.m. on Wednesday last week, Gregory Lawler was put to death.
With Lawler’s lethal injection, no other state except Texas has carried out as many as seven executions since Jan. 1. This year Georgia also has carried out a record number of executions for any given year since the death penalty was reinstated nationwide in 1976.
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