Parole Board Sets Clemency Appointment for Andrew DeYoung

July 13, 2011;

Atlanta, GA – The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has invited representatives for condemned inmate Andrew Grant DeYoung to meet with the Board on Monday, July 18, 2011, at 9:30 a.m., to advocate for clemency for him. DeYoung is scheduled to die by lethal injection July 20, 2011, at 7 p.m., at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia, for the June 1993, murders of his parents and sister.

DeYoung was convicted in Cobb County in September 1995 of the malice murders of his parents, Kathryn and Gary DeYoung, and his 14 year old sister, Sarah. An accomplice, David Michael Hagerty, admitted to police his participation in the crimes and testified for the state at DeYoung’s trial. Hagerty pled guilty to three counts of malice murder and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences.

During the months preceding the crime, DeYoung and Hagerty formulated a plan to murder DeYoung’s parents and DeYoung’s two siblings, Sarah and Nathan. The motive was money DeYoung hoped to gain through the settlement of his parent’s estate. The plan included killing the victims with knives and then setting the house on fire with gasoline.

On June 14, 1993, DeYoung and Hagerty went to the DeYoung home, arriving at approximately 2 a.m. Telephone wires to the home were cut. Andrew DeYoung proceeded upstairs where his parents and sister were sleeping and he instructed Hagerty to go downstairs and kill his 16 year old brother Nathan by cutting his throat. DeYoung stabbed his mother repeatedly, killing her. Her screams awakened his father. He struggled with his father before killing him. He then stabbed and killed Sarah in the hallway. Hagerty, who had heard the commotion upstairs, changed his mind about killing Nathan DeYoung. Nathan was able to escape out of a window to a neighbor’s house.

The Board appointment is not open to the media, but a photo opportunity will be afforded prior to the start of the appointment. Media should check in with credentials by 8:45 a.m. in the Board’s public reception office at 2 Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive, East Tower, 4th floor, room 458. Media will be given an opportunity to wait until the conclusion of the appointment to interview those seeking executive clemency for DeYoung, should they choose to grant interviews.

The Parole Board is the sole authority in Georgia for granting clemency to inmates. The Board may commute a death sentence to life without parole, to life or deny clemency.

To view a photo of Andrew DeYoung, go to www.dcor.state.ga.us
Click on GDC Inmate Query, agree to the terms on the disclaimer page, and enter the offender’s
EF number, 350635
For more information on the Parole Board, please visit our web site at www.pap.state.ga.us
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