!!!COMMUTATION!!!: 07/10/14: Waldrip, GA

From last night’s Atlanta-Journal Constitution:

Twenty-six hours before he was to be executed for a murder 23 years ago, Tommy Lee Waldrip was granted clemency.

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles took this decision likely because Mr. Waldrip was the only one of three co-defendants for this crime to be sentenced to death.  His sentence was commuted to life in prison.