The Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday denied clemency to a man who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Nicholas Cody Tate is to be put to death by lethal injection for the 2001 murders of Chrissie Williams and her 3-year-old daughter Katelyn in their Paulding County home. Tate pleaded guilty to the crimes, forgoing a jury trial, and was then given the death sentence by a judge after a sentencing hearing. Tate never filed his habeas corpus appeals, which are routine in death-penalty cases and would have taken years to be completed. BILL RANKIN
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An Illinois man recently pleaded guilty to mailing threats to metro area schools in hopes of getting law enforcement to begin investigating individuals the man disliked, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Valtrez Stewart, 29, mailed threats early last year to Northview High School, Marietta High School, Stephenson Middle School and Meadowcreek High School, prosecutors said. The notes warned that a bomb would detonate at a school or that people would be murdered if money was not paid to certain individuals by a certain deadline. Stewart is to be sentenced March 28. BILL RANKIN
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The city of Atlanta delivered thousands of documents on Friday to the attorneys for companies protesting the awarding of concessions contracts at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. J. Matthew Maguire Jr., an attorney for several small companies who had sought contracts but lost out in the procurement process, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the city produced 85,000 pages of emails. A Fulton County judge had ordered the city to turn over documents on Friday or earlier. The plaintiffs now have 10 additional days to file protests. JEREMIAH MCWILLIAMS
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