Georgia's oldest death row inmate has been executed aged 72 after the Supreme Court denied his last ditch plea for mercy.
Brandon Astor Jones was sentenced to death after he was convicted of killing a shop manager during a robbery.
He received the lethal injection at 12.46am on Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson.
The
last person he saw before dying was the man who prosecuted him in 1979 -
former Cobb County District Attorney Tom Charron - who was sitting on
the front row.
His execution had been delayed by several hours after his lawyers filed a last-minute appeal with the Supreme Court.
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