A federal judge said Wednesday that she plans to rule quickly on whether to halt the execution next week of a Georgia man who says he should be shielded by an agreement reached during the COVID-19 pandemic that set conditions for the state to resume putting condemned people to death.
Stacey Humphreys is scheduled to die by lethal injection next Wednesday, nearly two decades after a jury found him guilty of malice murder in the killings of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown. The women were fatally shot in 2003 at the real estate office where they worked in an Atlanta suburb.
