The state Supreme Court (SCOGA) ruled Tuesday that executions in Georgia, including that of a prisoner who was convicted of a Hall County murder nearly 30 years ago, are no longer going to be delayed by a COVID-era exception.
Georgia News Network reports the court overturned a judge’s ruling that the COVID vaccine is still not available to all people since it’s not approved for babies under six months of age.
Defense attorneys had been trying to halt a number of executions based on an agreement made five years ago that inmates wouldn’t be executed during COVID. The justices stated in their ruling that the vaccine’s supply now exceeds public demand.
The Hall County case is that of David Scott Franks, who was convicted of the 1994 murders of Clinton Wilson, 50, and Deborah Wilson, 35, and the wounding of their children, Brian, 13, and Jessica, 9.
Franks stabbed the four after going to their home to steal thousands of dollars he believed an acquaintance in Haralson County, Georgia, whom he had killed earlier, had stashed there.
He was convicted by a Hall County jury four years later of murder and several other charges related to the murders. Franks appealed but the state Supreme Court later upheld the convictions and sentences.
He is the only Hall County murderer on Georgia’s death row.
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