rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/stop-the-execution-of-willie-pye-in-georgia?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-stop-the-execution-of-willie-pye-in-georgia' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Death Penalty Action https://actionnetwork.org/groups/death-penalty-action https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/share_options/facebook_images/000/464/447/original/WilliePye_(Twitter_Post)-2.jpg Willie Pye is scheduled for execution in Georgia on March 20, 2024 for the 1992 murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. It's been more than three decades since Willie Pye was convicted in a rural Georgia county by a county prosecutor known for his racist attitudes. Nothing excuses this awful crime, however there remain questions about Willie Pye's intellectual capacity and whether racism had a role in his receiving a sentence of death by execution rather than incarceration for the rest of his life. In continuing to schedule executions, Georgia makes itself an outlier in its use of the death penalty. Over the last 5-years, Georgia has been one of only a handful of states that has carried out executions, while the majority of other states are on a downward trend of executions. Increasingly, states are abolishing the practice altogether, including the southern state of Virginia, which repealed its death penalty law in 2021. Please sign the petition to STOP this horror. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-willie-pye-in-georgia