William Sallie was executed by the State of Georgia for the murder of his father in law John Moore
According to court documents William Sallie was going through a custody battle with his ex wife when he would go over to his in laws and murder his father in law John Moore and shoot his mother in law who thankfully survived her injuries. Sallie would then kidnap his wife and sister in law but would eventually release them unharmed
William Sallie would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
William Sallie was executed on December 6 2016 by lethal injection
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William Sallie was executed on December 6 2016
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William Sallie, 50, has been executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, making him the ninth inmate the state has put to death this year.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for Sallie shortly after 9:30 p.m.
Sallie was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m., but Georgia does not act until all courts have weighed in, which usually puts the actual time of death well into the night and sometimes into the early morning hours of the next day.
This afternoon, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously denied Sallie’s request for a stay of execution. His lawyers then petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court, even though the high court had previously turned him down.
As he waited, Sallie ate all of what he’d requested for his final meal — pizza — and visited with six family members, four friends, three members of the clergy and four paralegals.
Sallie, 50, repeatedly failed to get any court to consider his claim of juror bias, and on Monday the State Board of Pardons and Paroles also rejected that argument and refused to grant a stay of execution.
Sallie was convicted in Bacon County of murdering his father-in-law John Moore in 1990, shooting and wounding his mother-in-law Linda Moore, and kidnapping his estranged wife and her sister.
Sallie broke into his in-laws’ home — where his wife, Robin, and their 2-year-old son, Ryan, were sleeping — after he lost a custody battle and his wife filed for divorce.
In court filings and a clemency petition, Sallie’s lawyers wrote that the domestic turmoil in William and Robin Sallie’s lives was much like that lived by a juror who denied ever being embroiled in a volatile marriage, a custody dispute or domestic violence.
When the woman was questioned during jury selection for the Sallie murder trial, she said her marriages — four of them — had ended amicably.
Sallie’s lawyers said that was false, contending in their clemency petition that the juror fought with soon-to-be ex-husbands over child custody and support payments and lived with domestic abuse.
That juror also told an investigator for Sallie’s lawyers that she pushed six fellow jurors to change their votes from life in prison to death, making the jury’s decision unanimous.
In numerous filings, Sallie’s lawyers tried to get a hearing on the issue of juror bias, which has not been argued in any court because Sallie missed a critical deadline to bring that appeal.
Sallie’s attorney Jack Martin said that deadline came at a time when Sallie did not have a lawyer, as Georgia law does not mandate that the state pay for appellate attorneys for death row inmates.
Martin said former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher told the Parole Board about Georgia’s history of not providing lawyers for condemned inmates.
Fletcher wrote an op-ed in The New York Times this week — “Georgia’s dangerous rush to execution” — in which he talked about problems inherent in Georgia’s application of the death penalty.
“A door that would have been open to Mr. Sallie in almost any other state was closed to him in Georgia,” Fletcher wrote of the state’s refusal to provide people with legal counsel. “If it were open, he would be able to present the
facts about his trial, which appear to show serious problems with juror bias.”
Now that Sallie has been put to death, Georgia has nearly doubled its record for the number of executions carried out in a year since the death penalty was reinstated here in 1973. Georgia executed five people last year and also
in 1987. Georgia also leads the nation in executions this year. Texas is second, with seven executions in 2016.
