Second Execution This Month Scheduled In Georgia

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Second Execution This Month Scheduled In Georgia

Story Published: May 8, 2008 at 2:27 PM EDT

Story Updated: May 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker has ordered a Georgia man to be executed on May 22nd in the death of his former boss.

Baker issued the order Thursday for Samuel David Crowe.

He was sentenced to death in Douglas County in November 1989 after being convicted of robbery and murder in the death of his former boss,
Joseph Pala, in 1988.

Pala worked at Wickes Lumber Company in Douglas County.

Crowe had been a manager-trainee at the same lumber company earlier, and company officials say he was experiencing financial problems.

Crowe's execution would be the second in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections.

William Earl Lynd was executed Tuesday.

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