Georgia sets execution date for man convicted of killing two real estate agents

Georgia corrections officials have set Stacey Humphreys’s execution date for September 16 at 7 p.m. for the 2003 murders of two real estate agents, Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown, in Cobb County. If carried out, it would be Georgia’s first execution in more than two years and Humphreys would be the 55th inmate put to death by lethal injection in the state. The case has been complicated by ongoing litigation over a coronavirus pandemic-related execution agreement and by prior efforts to pause the date after prosecutors sought clemency considerations involving two State Board of Pardons and Paroles members. Key procedural questions focused on whether those two board members had conflicts of interest due to roles they held during the trial. Trial records show Humphreys forced the victims to strip, demanded their PINs, and withdrew money from their accounts, and he had been on parole for a 1993 felony at the time. His execution would mark a significant milestone in Georgia’s death penalty timeline after last year’s pauses and disputes over clemency processes.