Georgia Execution Delayed by Legal Battle | Lafayette Louisiana News

Lafayette Louisiana News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 28, 2026 · 1m

Georgia prepares for its first execution of 2024, scheduled for September 16th, as 53-year-old Stacey Humphreys faces lethal injection for the 2003 murders of two Atlanta real estate agents. His execution was delayed last December after his lawyers successfully forced one parole board member to recuse herself due to a conflict — she had been a victim advocate during trial — while another was deemed ineligible. The judge denied replacing the full five-member panel, prompting Humphreys’ team to appeal to Georgia’s Supreme Court, which declined, and now they’ve petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court…