Stacey Humphreys, 53, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the state prison near Jackson on September 16 at 7pm for the murders of two real estate agents in an Atlanta suburb more than two decades ago.
According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, Humphreys has requested a final meal of barbecue beef brisket, pork ribs, a bacon double cheeseburger, French fries, buffalo wings and a meat lovers pan pizza. For dessert, he asked for two flavours of ice cream, butter pecan and peach, along with two caffeine-free sodas.
Conviction and crimes
Humphreys was convicted of the 2003 murders of real estate agents Cyndi Williams, 33, and Lori Brown, 21. He shot the women dead at a sales office in a model home for a new subdivision in Powder Springs, a suburb about 20 miles northwest of Atlanta, on November 3, 2003.
He forced them to strip naked and give him their bank PINs before shooting them to death around midday. Court documents show he took the women's driver's licenses and bank and credit cards, and withdrew more than $3,000 from their accounts.
In police interviews following their deaths, he told officers he had recently taken out some high-interest payday loans and needed money for a payment on his truck. Humphreys had been released from prison 13 months earlier and on parole for a 1993 felony theft conviction.
Pending legal motion
Humphreys was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery and kidnapping with bodily injury. However, he has recently filed a motion for a new sentencing trial, which remains pending.
On August 28, his attorneys filed a motion in Cobb County Court for a new sentencing trial, claiming juror misconduct during his initial sentencing. The judge is yet to have made a ruling, but if he sides with Humphreys, he could be allowed a new sentencing trial and the chance to overturn his death sentence.
If denied, he will be the first person executed in Georgia since March 2024, as executions have been paused in the state over an agreement related to the coronavirus pandemic. Previously, Humphreys was scheduled to be put to death last December, but the execution was delayed after his lawyers filed a petition asking a judge to order two members of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to recuse themselves from hearing his clemency petition.
