Georgia Puts Inmate to Death for Man’s 1996 Shotgun Slaying

Georgia Puts Inmate to Death for Man’s 1996 Shotgun Slaying
Marion Wilson Jr. Georgia Department of Corrections via AP
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JACKSON, Ga.—A Georgia inmate convicted of the 1996 shotgun slaying of a man who had agreed to give him and another man a ride outside a Walmart store was executed late June 21.

Marion Wilson Jr., 42, was pronounced dead at 9:52 p.m. following an injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson, the office of the Georgia attorney general said in a statement.