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~ Marion Wilson, Jr., 20Jun19, (GA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: June 14, 2019, 7:32 pm
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Georgia killer makes last meal request ahead of execution--
Thursday, June 13, 2019
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Marion Wilson Jr., the convicted murderer scheduled to be
executed next week, has made his last meal request, authorities
announced Thursday.
Wilson faces the death penalty for the 1996 shooting death of
24-year-old Donovan Corey Parks, an off-duty prison guard who
wanted to become a counselor for inmates.
Wilson has attempted to halt the execution, slated for 7 p.m. on
June 20, but he went ahead and told the state what he wants to
eat on his final day. As other condemned inmates do, Wilson
requested a high-calorie meal: one medium thin-crust pizza with
everything, 20 buffalo wings, one pint of butter pecan ice
cream, some apple pie and grape juice.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole has scheduled a clemency
hearing for June 19, the day before the planned execution. If
put to death, Wilson would be the second Georgia prisoner to die
from an injection of pentobarbital this year. Wilson’s
co-defendant Robert Butts was executed in May 2018.
Butts had known Parks from working with him at Burger King. On
March 28, 1996, Butts and Wilson saw Parks, who had just left
Bible study, at Walmart. They asked Parks for a ride and
attacked him after he agreed, prosecutors said. The defendants
were in the Folk Nation gang. Prosecutors said heightened status
in the gang was the motive for the crime.
Wilson grabbed Parks’ neck tie so tight it later had to be cut
off, and Butts killed him with a gunshot to the head from a
sawed off shotgun, prosecutors said. They stole his car and left
him dying on the ground...
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Re: ~ Marion Wilson, Jr., 20Jun19, (GA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: June 18, 2019, 9:25 pm
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Slain man's brother frustrated by 23-year wait for justice--
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) — Chris Parks is ready to stop checking
the number of days since his brother was murdered.
For more than two decades he's periodically tracked how many
days go by before the two men convicted of killing him are
executed. On Thursday, when the second is scheduled to die, the
days will number 8,484.
Marion Wilson Jr. and Robert Earl Butts Jr. were convicted of
murder and sentenced to death in the March 1996 slaying of
24-year-old Donovan Corey Parks in Milledgeville, about 90 miles
southeast of Atlanta.
The state executed Butts, who was 40, in May 2018. Wilson, 42,
is set for execution Thursday.
"What they did to him was not humane. It wasn't fair," Parks
said, a tear sliding down his cheek.
That day is etched in Parks' memory. He had dreamed the night
before that someone killed his brother, and he was relieved in
the morning to see Donovan on the couch.
Before the day ended, his nightmare had become reality.
Parks said his brother went to church the evening of March 28,
1996, and then to Walmart to buy cat food.
Witnesses saw Wilson and Butts, who prosecutors said were gang
members, standing behind him in a checkout line. A witness heard
Butts ask Parks for a ride.
Butts was in the front passenger seat and Wilson was in the back
as they left the parking lot, witnesses said. Wilson told
investigators Butts pulled out a sawed-off shotgun, ordered
Parks to drive and then ordered Parks out of the car and shot
him once in the back of the head, according to court documents.
The pair then stole Parks' car.
Parks' father, Freddie, found him lying along the road, but the
shotgun did so much damage that he wasn't sure it was his son.
Chris Parks, 42, is frustrated that it's taken more than two
decades for Butts and Wilson to be executed.
"Donovan was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced and executed
within 30 minutes for being nice, for being caring," he said.
Meanwhile, he said, Butts and Wilson had years to fight for
their lives. Lawyers for both men argued in court filings that
the death penalty is an unconstitutionally cruel and unusual
punishment.
"What's cruel and unusual is to snatch a man from his vehicle by
his necktie so tight that he probably can't speak or breathe,"
Parks said. "What's cruel and unusual is to lay that man down on
the cold asphalt and to take his life as if he was worth nothing
more than gum on the bottom of a shoe."
When he died, Donovan Parks was working two jobs — as a prison
guard and at a Winn-Dixie grocery store — to make money to study
to become a prison counselor.
"He wanted to help those inmates that were in for the long ride,
as well as those who were getting ready to transition back to
society," Chris Parks said. "He believed that having those
conversations and working out those issues that they had would
make them better individuals."
Donovan and Chris Parks' mother had died just under a year
before Donovan's murder, and the family's house caught fire
about six months after. Overwhelmed by tragedy, Chris Parks fled
Milledgeville and joined the Army.
He now works in cybersecurity and lives just outside Atlanta
with his wife and four children — the oldest, a daughter, named
Corey in honor of her late uncle.
Parks thinks about his brother every day and wishes he could
call him to complain or seek advice. He's heartbroken that his
children were robbed of the opportunity to meet their uncle, who
was artistic like Chris' two daughters and sensitive like one of
his sons.
Parks witnessed Butts' execution last year.
Georgia executes prisoners using an injection of the sedative
pentobarbital. Strapped to a gurney with his arms outstretched
to either side, the prisoner appears to fall asleep as witnesses
watch from the other side of a large window.
"Honestly, it made me angry," Parks said of Butts' execution.
"What I saw was a man who was unremorseful. What I saw was a man
being put to sleep as if he were getting a root canal."
Still, he plans to be there again — with his wife, his dad and
his stepmother — sitting in the front row of the witness area,
to watch Wilson draw his final breaths.
"Execution doesn't bring him back," he said, referring to his
brother. "But what execution does is it offers a starting point
for myself, my dad, our family, to finally get some sort of
closure and to start healing."
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Re: ~ Marion Wilson, Jr., 20Jun19, (GA) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: June 20, 2019, 10:28 pm
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Georgia puts inmate to death for man's 1996 shotgun slaying--
Thursday, June 20, 2019
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia inmate convicted of the 1996
shotgun slaying of a man who had agreed to give him and another
man a ride outside a Walmart store maintained his innocence
before being put to death Thursday.
Warden Benjamin Ford pronounced Marion Wilson Jr. dead at 9:52
p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. Wilson, 42, and Robert Earl
Butts Jr. were convicted of murder and sentenced to death for
the shotgun slaying of 24-year-old Donovan Corey Parks in
Milledgeville, about 90 miles southeast of Atlanta.
Wilson was the second prisoner executed by Georgia this year. He
was also the 1,500th put to death nationwide since the U.S.
Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
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