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       ~ Virgil Presnell, Jr., (GA) ~
       By: BuzzC Date: April 28, 2022, 7:38 pm
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       Georgia sets execution for man convicted of murdering
       8-year-old, raping 10-year-old--
       April 28th, 2022
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       COBB COUNTY, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man convicted of killing an
       8-year-old girl and raping a 10-year-old girl more than 45 years
       ago is scheduled to be executed next month, state officials
       said.
       Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward
       announced in a Wednesday news release that Virgil Delano
       Presnell Jr. is to be put to death at 7 p.m. on May 17 at the
       state prison in Jackson.
       Presnell, 68, was accused of abducting and attacking the two
       girls as they walked home from school in Cobb County, just
       outside Atlanta, on May 4, 1976.
       He was convicted in August 1976 on charges including malice
       murder, kidnapping and **** and was sentenced to death. His
       death sentence was overturned in 1992 but was reinstated in
       March 1999.
       Presnell staked out a Cobb County elementary school on May 3,
       1976, and saw a 10-year-old girl walking home on a wooded trail.
       He returned the next day, and abducted the girl and her
       8-year-old friend when they came walking down the trail,
       according to evidence at trial outlined in a Georgia Supreme
       Court ruling.
       He drove the two girls to a secluded wooded area, made them
       undress and raped the older girl, the ruling says. The younger
       girl tried to run as he took her back to the car, but Presnell
       caught her, shoved her face underwater in a creek and drowned
       her.
       Presnell then locked the older girl in his car trunk, began
       driving and dropped her in a wooded area when he got a flat
       tire. Throughout, Presnell had forced her to engage in sex acts
       multiple times, the ruling says.
       Presnell had told the girl he’d return, but she heard sounds
       from a nearby gas station and walked there. She described
       Presnell and his car with a flat tire to police, who found him
       changing his tire at his apartment complex near where he’d left
       the older girl.
       At first, Presnell denied everything but later he led police to
       the 8-year-old girl’s body and confessed, the ruling says.
       Police found a handgun and child pornography showing young girls
       in his bedroom.
       Presnell will be the first person executed by the state of
       Georgia since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The
       last person executed by Georgia was Donnie Cleveland Lance in
       January 2020. Georgia uses an injection of the sedative
       pentobarbital to carry out executions.
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