Stacey Humphreys is scheduled for execution in Georgia on December 17, 2025 for the 2003 murders of Lori Brown and Cynthia Williams.

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Call Gov. Kemp at 404-656-1776 with the following message:

"Hi. My name is [your name]. I am calling to urge Gov. Kemp to intervene to stop the execution of Stacey Humphreys on December 17, 2025. I am deeply concerned that Mr. Humphreys' right to a fair trial was tainted due to an issue with a biased juror. Among other things, one of the jurors in this case already had her mind up on voting in favor of the death penalty - even going as far as to bully other jurors into voting for a death sentence. Regardless of Mr. Humphreys' guilt, we are a country built on the promise of fair trials. Since his rights were so glaringly violated, Mr. Humphreys' death sentence should be commuted."

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The following information is from the Associated Press:

Lawyers for Humphreys have argued that his death sentence was tainted by a biased juror who lied during jury selection and bullied other jurors into voting for a death sentence. As a result, they argue, Humphreys’ death sentence should be thrown out because he was denied his right to a fair trial.

During jury selection for Humphreys’ trial in September 2007, a juror said she had been the victim of armed robbery and attempted rape by an escaped convict but that she had been able to escape before he entered her home, according to court filings. But in the jury room, she told the other jurors that a man broke into her apartment and attacked her while she was naked in bed.

She had her mind made up, and when the other 11 jurors voted for life without parole on the second day of deliberations, she wouldn’t consider it, according to court filings. She screamed and vowed to stay there as long as it took to reach a death sentence, jurors told the judge they were deadlocked and a juror asked to be removed because of another juror’s “hostile” behavior, the filings say. Ultimately, the jury reached a unanimous death verdict.

The juror’s behavior surfaced through juror affidavits and testimony after the trial, and Georgia courts found that it was inadmissible evidence under a rule that generally doesn’t allow using juror testimony to impeach a verdict. Federal courts similarly found that Humphreys’ juror misconduct claim was procedurally barred.

The arguments went up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined in October to hear the case. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying she would have sent the case back to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “for further clarification rather than leave Humphreys’s juror-misconduct claim caught in a web of procedural barriers.”

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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.

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