Georgia Supreme Court removes COVID-19 execution barrier

By: Ross Williams

Outlets: Georgia Recorder

Published: June 2, 2026

Words: 555

Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago

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The Georgia Supreme Court ended an agreement preventing the execution of nine death row inmates, even though the Food and Drug Administration hasn’t approved the COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of 6 months.

Here’s how those two things are related.

According to the court, the 2021 agreement stated that the attorney general’s office would not pursue execution warrants for certain prisoners whose petitions for a rehearing had been denied while the state was …

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