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~ Ray Cromartie, 13Nov19, (GA) ~
By: BuzzC Date: October 24, 2019, 10:35 pm
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Georgia set to execute man convicted of killing store clerk--
Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to be put to death
Oct. 30.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
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ATLANTA — A man convicted of shooting two Georgia convenience
store clerks — killing one and seriously injuring the other — in
separate robberies is scheduled to be executed later this month.
Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to be put to death
Oct. 30 at the state prison in Jackson, state Attorney General
Chris Carr said in a news release Wednesday. Cromartie was
convicted of malice murder and sentenced to die for the April
1994 slaying of 50-year-old Richard Slysz at a convenience store
in Thomasville, just north of the Florida border.
Cromartie borrowed a handgun from his cousin on April 7, 1994,
and that night walked into the Madison Street Deli and shot
clerk Dan Wilson in the face, according to a Georgia Supreme
Court summary of the case. He left the store after trying
unsuccessfully to open the cash register, the summary says.
Wilson suffered a severed carotid artery but survived. He was
unable to describe the person who shot him, and footage from a
surveillance camera wasn't clear enough to conclusively identify
Cromartie.
But Cromartie asked some friends the next day if they'd seen the
news and told one that he'd shot the clerk while he was washing
dishes in the back, the summary says.
A few days later, on April 10, 1994, Cromartie and Corey Clark
asked Thaddeus Lucas to drive them to a different store to steal
beer, the summary says. Lucas parked on a nearby street and
waited while the other two entered the Junior Food Store.
Cromartie shot Slysz twice in the head after they entered the
store, the summary says. Cromartie and Clark were unable to open
the cash register and fled after Cromartie grabbed two 12-packs
of beer.
A friend testified that when Cromartie and the others returned
to an apartment complex, Cromartie bragged about shooting the
clerk, the summary says.
Cromartie was arrested three days later. Lucas and Clark both
testified against him at his trial in September 1997. A jury
found Cromartie guilty of charges including malice murder, armed
robbery, aggravated battery, aggravated assault and gun charges,
and sentenced him to die.
Lucas and Clark both pleaded guilty to lesser charges, served
prison time and were released.
Cromartie will be the third prisoner executed in Georgia this
year. The state says it uses an injection of the sedative
pentobarbital to put inmates to death.
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Re: ~ Ray Cromartie, 13Nov19, (GA) ~
By: Moonbeam Date: October 26, 2019, 11:53 pm
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Isn't it odd how these type of people think nothing of taking
someones life and yet don't see why they should forfeit their
own. I don't think there is the slightest mitigating
circumstance why this guy should have even been alive this long
(20+ years later).
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Re: ~ Ray Cromartie, 13Nov19, (GA) ~
By: BuzzC Date: November 13, 2019, 11:12 pm
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Georgia executes death row inmate for ‘94 store clerk killing--
Ray Jefferson Cromartie was pronounced dead at 10:59 p.m.
Wednesday.
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
JACKSON, Ga. — Georgia has executed a man convicted in the 1994
killing of a convenience store clerk.
Officials say 52-year-old Ray Jefferson Cromartie was pronounced
dead at 10:59 p.m. Wednesday after an injection of pentobarbital
at the state prison in Jackson. The Georgia Department of
Corrections says Cromartie accepted a final prayer but declined
making a final statement.
Cromartie had been convicted and sentenced to die for the April
1994 slaying of Richard Slysz at a convenience store in
Thomasville, near the Georgia-Florida line.
A Georgia Supreme Court summary of the case says Cromartie and
another man went into a convenience store on April 10, 1994, and
Cromartie fatally shot Slysz and then grabbed two cases of beer
before leaving the store.
Prosecutors say Cromartie also shot another convenience store
clerk a few days earlier. That clerk was badly wounded but
survived.
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