The state of Georgia said during Thursday arguments that a COVID-19 pandemic-related agreement shielding certain people on death row from execution should no longer apply, but death penalty defense attorneys said it's still valid because some of its conditions have yet to be met.
The agreement said executions wouldn’t be scheduled for a certain group of people on death row until six months after three conditions had been met: the expiration of the state’s COVID-19 judicial emergency, the resumption of normal visitation at state prisons and the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine “to all members of the public.”
