ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday that she plans to rule quickly on whether to halt the execution next week of a Georgia man who says he should be shielded by an agreement reached during the COVID-19 pandemic that set conditions for the state to resume putting condemned people to death.

Stacey Humphreys is scheduled to die by lethal injection next Wednesday, nearly two decades after a jury found him guilty of malice murder in the killings of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown. The women were fatally shot in 2003 at the real estate office where they worked in an Atlanta suburb.

U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May told attorneys after hearing arguments in Atlanta that she would rule by Thursday morning on whether Humphreys’ execution moves forward.

Na

See Full Page