ATLANTA - The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has scheduled a meeting for Monday, December 5, 2016, to meet with representatives seeking clemency for condemned inmate William Sallie. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.

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.

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. Following the meeting, the Board may commute the sentence, issue a stay of up to 90-days, or deny the clemency request.

The Board maintains a comprehensive file on each inmate on death row. The file includes the history of the life of the condemned inmate, the inmate’s criminal history and the circumstances of the offense that was committed resulting in the death sentence.

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, S.E., 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 Sallie if they choose to grant interviews.

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