ATLANTA - The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied the clemency request for condemned inmate William Sallie.  The decision followed a meeting today conducted by the Board to hear information for or against clemency.

Sallie is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, December 6, 2016, at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

In reaching the decision the Board Members considered the information presented at the meeting today, as well as the petition seeking clemency and they had reviewed the comprehensive parole file maintained on Sallie. The file contains a complete history of the inmate to include his criminal history and the circumstances of the crime resulting in the death sentence.

Sallie was sentenced to death for the March 1990 murder of John Moore in Bacon County. He was convicted of malice murder, felony murder, burglary, aggravated assault, kidnapping with bodily injury (two counts) and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. The United States Supreme Court denied Sallie’s request to appeal on November 14, 2016. 

In Georgia, the Parole Board has the sole constitutional authority to grant clemency and commute, or reduce a death sentence to life with the possibility of parole or to life without the possibility of parole. 

For more information please contact Steve Hayes at 404-657-9450 or [email protected] or visit our website at www.pap.georgia.gov.

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