ATLANTA — The scheduled execution of a Georgia man who murdered an 8-year-old girl 46 years ago was postponed Tuesday evening, one day after a Fulton County judge granted an injunction temporarily halting the process.
Virgil Delano Presnell Jr., 68, was set to die by lethal injection after spending nearly five decades on death row. But Superior Court Judge Shermela Williams issued an order staying the execution Monday evening during an emergency hearing that lasted nine hours.
The Georgia Attorney General’s office appealed that injunction Tuesday, but the Georgia Supreme Court did not issue a ruling ahead of the scheduled execution.
