William Mitchell was executed by the State of Georgia for a murder that were committed during a robbery
According to court documents William Mitchell would enter a store with the purpose of robbing it and in the process would shoot the store owner and her fourteen year old son. The teen would die from his injuries
William Mitchell would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
William Mitchell would be executed by way of the electric chair on September 2 1987
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William Mitchell was executed on September 2 1987
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William Mitchell was executed by way of the electric chair
William Mitchell Case
William Mitchell, convicted of murdering a 14-year-old boy and wounding the boy’s mother in a holdup at a grocery store, was executed today in Georgia’s electric chair.
Mr. Mitchell, 35 years old, was the fourth person executed in the state this year and the 11th since Georgia resumed executions in 1983. Nationwide, 90 people have been executed since the 1976 United States Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for states to reinstate the death penalty.
Mr. Mitchell was pronounced dead at 7:21 P.M., a Department of Corrections spokesman, John Siler, said.
The defendant’s lawyers had appealed to the Supreme Court after being turned down Monday by the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, but the High Court voted 5 to 3 to deny a stay. State Officials Adamant
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles also upheld the death sentence today, even though Mr. Mitchell’s lawyers asked the board in a letter not to consider the case.
The letter expressed Mr. Mitchell’s regret for the pain suffered by the family of the victim. It also noted that the board had denied clemency to other condemned men who had been model prisoners.
”Simply put, he believes very strongly that clemency as an alternative to execution does not exist in Georgia,” the letter said.
Mr. Mitchell pleaded guilty to killing Christopher Carr during the holdup at the grocery store where the boy’s mother worked.
”I won’t be satisfied until I get revenge,” the boy’s mother, Peggy Carr, said in a 1985 interview. She was shot four times during the robbery, which netted Mr. Mitchell about $160
The Supreme Court upheld Mr. Mitchell’s sentence in June after ruling on April 22 in another case that Georgia’s death penalty does not discriminate on the basis of race.
William Mitchell also was sentenced to life in prison for killing a 50-year-old man the day before the grocery store robbery.
Texas Execution Postponed
In Texas, a Federal judge postponed the scheduled execution of a convicted killer considered by prison officials to be among the most violent men behind bars in that state.
James Demouchette, 32, was to have been the sixth person executed in Texas this year and the 26th since the Supreme Court ruling. He had faced lethal injection shortly tonight for the 1976 robbery-slayings of two Houston pizza parlor workers.
His lawyers appealed to Federal District Judge Lynn Hughes to spare the inmate, saying his violent nature may be the result of childhood beatings by his father.
Judge Hughes issued an indefinite stay this afternoon. No hearing in the matter was set immediately, said the judge’s secretary.
Mr. Demouchette was convicted in 1977 and sentenced to death for shooting Scott Sorrell, 19, and Robert White, 20. He was later granted a new trial, but again received a death sentence.
The heroin addict is considered one of the meanest of the 257 people on death row, said a Texas Department of Corrections spokesman, Charles Brown.