ATLANTA (AP) — A Barrow County man who killed his ex-girlfriend and another woman in Gainesville nearly 25 years ago is set to be the first prisoner executed in Georgia this year.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced Friday that 52-year-old Scotty Morrow is scheduled to die May 2 at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend Barbara Ann Young and her friend Tonya Woods at Young's Gainesville home in December 1994.
Prosecutors said at trial that Morrow shot the two women and another woman when they turned him away when he tried to get Young to take him back. The third woman survived.
Lawyers for Morrow have argued he was a good person who snapped because of lingering trauma from abuse and bullying he suffered as a child.
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The last execution involving a Hall County murder case occurred in 2005. That's when Stephen Anthony Mobley was put to death at Jackson for the 1991 murder of John C. Collins, who was killed during a robbery of the Oakwood pizza store which he managed.
(AccessWDUN's Ken Stanford contributed to this story.)
