JACKSON — Willie Pye, the Georgia man convicted in the 1993 killing of Alicia Yarbrough in Spalding County, was executed by lethal injection Wednesday night at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison.
Pye, 59, was given an injection of pentobarbital, and GDCP Warden Shawn Emmons pronounced Pye dead at 11:03 p.m.
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