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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Georgia execution date set

Georgia's first execution in nearly two years is set for June 26th. 63-year-old John Washington Hightower is scheduled to die by lethal injection. He was convicted in July of 1987 of the killings of his wife and two stepdaughters in Milledgeville.

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