Parole Board Denies Clemency for Nicholas Cody Tate
January 30, 2012;
Atlanta, Ga. - Monday January 30, 2012, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles met
to consider a clemency request from attorneys representing condemned inmate Nicholas Cody Tate.
After considering the request, the Board has voted to deny clemency.
Tate was sentenced to death in Paulding County for the December 11, 2001, murders of Chrissie
Williams and her 3-year old daughter Katelyn. Tate pleaded guilty on November 15, 2005, to eight
charges including two counts of malice murder. On December 19, 2005, Tate was sentenced to death by
the trial court. Additionally Tate received two life sentences for kidnapping, ten years for
conspiracy to commit armed robbery, ten years for child molestation, fifteen years for cruelty to
children, and five years for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Tate is scheduled to die by lethal injection on January 31, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., at the Georgia
Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia.
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