Georgia Inmate Executed for 1994 Slaying of Clerk After Supreme Court Denies Appeal

This undated file photo made available by the Georgia Department of Corrections, shows inmate Ray Jefferson Cromartie in custody. He was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for April 1994’s slaying of Richard Slysz at a Thomasville, Ga., convenience store. Georgia Department of Corrections via AP, File

A Georgia inmate was executed on Wednesday evening in the 1994 slaying of a store clerk after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal (pdf).

Ray “Jeff” Cromartie, 52, was put to death at 10:59 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.