A Georgia inmate is slated to be executed at 7 p.m. this evening, marking the first execution in the state this year.Robert Newland, 65, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection for his conviction in 1987 in the slaying of Carol Sanders Beatty, 27, a former state and national amateur diving champion who was killed in the garden of her St. Simons Island home.
Newland's attorney has asked the Georgia Supreme Court to stay the execution on grounds it was disproportionate.
The pardons board yesterday turned down his bid to commute the sentence.
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