Atlanta, GA – The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has scheduled a specially called meeting to receive information regarding clemency in the case of condemned inmate Robert Wayne Holsey for Monday, December 8, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. Holsey is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia.

Holsey was sentenced to death for the December 1995 murder of Deputy Sheriff Will Robinson in Baldwin County. The murder occurred December 17, 1995, after Holsey committed an armed robbery at a convenience store in Milledgeville. Deputy Robinson stopped Holsey’s car a few minutes later and was killed. Holsey was indicted in the Superior Court of Baldwin County, Georgia, on January 8, 1996. A jury found Holsey guilty on all counts and sentenced him to death on February 13, 1997. The Georgia Supreme Court later upheld the conviction and affirmed the jury’s verdict. The United States Supreme Court denied Holsey’s appeal on June 10, 2013. 

As in each clemency case, as the clemency meeting approaches, Board Members thoroughly review the Parole Board’s case file on the inmate which includes the inmate’s criminal history, circumstances of the crime, the inmate’s prison record and a comprehensive history of the inmate’s life.

It is anticipated that the meeting will be closed as authorized by O.C.G.A. § 50-14-3 (a)(2). No public comment will be taken at this meeting and no other business will be conducted. Media will be afforded the opportunity to take photographs prior to the meeting. Media should check in with credentials by 8:30 a.m., in the Board’s public reception office at 2 Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive, East Tower, 4th Floor, room 458. Media should first be cleared for entry by building security on the Plaza Level. Members of the media will be given an opportunity to wait until the conclusion of the meeting to interview those seeking executive clemency for Holsey, if they choose to grant interviews.

For more information on the Parole Board, please visit our website at www.pap.georgia.gov.