A man convicted of killing a Georgia convenience store clerk 25 years ago was put to death late Wednesday night, authorities said.
Inmate Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was pronounced dead at 10:59 p.m. EST after an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. He made no last statement but requested a prayer to be recited before the drugs began flowing.
Cromartie had insisted through his attorneys that he didn’t shoot either clerk. The defense lawyers had recently asked state and federal courts to allow DNA testing of evidence collected from the shootings that they said could prove he wasn’t the shooter. Lawyer Shawn Nolan called the denial of DNA tests “so sad and frankly outrageous” in a statement after the execution.
Lucas and Clark testified against Cromartie at the September 1997 trial that concluded with his death sentence. Lucas and Clark each pleaded guilty to lesser charges, served prison time and were released. A judge last month found it unlikely that DNA testing would lead to a different verdict. The judge also said Cromartie had waited too long to request testing and failed to show he wasn’t just trying to delay his execution. Georgia’s Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of that ruling.
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