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The agreement covers fewer than 10 of the 34 people currently on Georgia's death row.While Georgia stopped carrying out executions during the pandemic, death penalty cases continued to wind their way through the court system, and as people exhausted their appeals, they became eligible for execution.
A committee of a judicial task force on COVID-19 in early 2021 instructed lawyers for people on death row and the state attorney general’s office to come up with terms under which executions could safely resume. The two sides reached the agreement in April 2021.The agreement only applied to people on death row whose requests to have their appeals reheard were denied by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while the judicial emergency was in place. The agreement was to remain in effect through Aug. 1, 2022, or one year from the date on which the conditions were met — whichever was later.The legal fight arose from a lawsuit filed when officials set a May 2022 execution date for Virgil Delano Presnell Jr. The Federal Defender Program, which represents Presnell, said the state had violated the agreement because the conditions hadn’t all been met.
Based on that argument, a Fulton County Superior Court judgeless than 24 hours before it was to take place, and the Georgia Supreme Court
that the agreement was a binding contract.
People on death row who are not covered by the agreement have since become eligible for execution. One of them, Willie James Pye, wasJackrabbits as a group are not on the brink of extinction. However, of the
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