Parole Board Denies Clemency for DeYoung
July 18, 2011;
Atlanta, GA - Earlier today, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles met to
consider a clemency request from attorneys representing condemned inmate Andrew Grant DeYoung.
After considering the request, the Board voted to deny clemency.
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.
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.
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