ATLANTA - The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday, May 1, 2019, to consider clemency for condemned inmate Scotty Garnell Morrow. The sole purpose of this meeting is to receive information for or against clemency for Morrow. The Board’s meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.

The Superior Court of Hall County has ordered the execution of Morrow for the 1994 murders of Barbara Ann Young and Tonya Rochelle Woods. The Georgia Department of Corrections has scheduled the execution to take place by lethal injection on Thursday, May 2, 2019, at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.

Morrow was convicted in Hall County in June of 1999 of two counts of malice murder, two counts of felony murder, six counts of aggravated assault, and aggravated battery, cruelty to a child, burglary and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Morrow was sentenced to death on June 29, 1999. The United States Supreme Court denied Morrows’ request to appeal on February 19, 2019.

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 clemency.

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

The meeting will take place at the Parole Board’s central office in the East Tower of the Floyd Veterans Memorial Building located at 2 Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive, S.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30334. 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 in the board hearing room prior to the meeting.

Media should arrive by 8:30 a.m. to be cleared by building security on the Plaza Level. Media should proceed to check in with credentials in the Board’s public reception office on the 4th Floor, room 458. Following the meeting, media will be given an opportunity to interview those persons appearing before the Board, if they choose to grant interviews.

To view a photo of Scotty Garnell Morrow go to www.gdc.georgia.gov, click on Find an Offender, agree to the terms on the disclaimer page and search by the offender’s EF number, 422853.

For more information please contact Steve Hayes, Communications Director for the State Board of Pardons and Paroles at 404-657-9450 or [email protected] or visit our website at www.pap.georgia.gov.

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