The Nation - News from Jan. 8, 1985
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the execution of Roosevelt Green, who is scheduled to die in Georgia’s electric chair early Wednesday for the 1976 abduction and killing of Teresa Carol Allen, an 18-year-old convenience store clerk. As prison employees tested the electric chair, lawyers for Green, 28, met behind closed doors in Atlanta with the Board of Pardons and Paroles, which is considering their plea for clemency or a 90-day stay of execution pending a decision on the clemency appeal.
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