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Parole board denies clemency to Paulding County killer

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Jan 30, 2012

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.

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