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Parole board denies clemency to Cobb killer

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July 20, 2011

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday rejected a clemency request by Andrew Grant DeYoung, who is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday.

Also Monday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington weighed a request by DeYoung's lawyers for a stay of execution to allow a lawsuit to proceed against the Department of Corrections. It alleges DOC failed to follow proper procedure when it changed lethal-injection drugs in May. DeYoung sits on death row for killing his parents and 14-year-old sister at their northeast Cobb home in 1993.

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