ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge declined Wednesday to halt next week’s scheduled execution of a Georgia man who argued that 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, 52, is scheduled to die next Wednesday for the 2003 killings of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown, who were fatally shot 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 the execution moves forward.

Nathan Potek, an attorney for Humphreys, told the judge that putting Humphreys to death now would violate his constituti

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