The Nation - News from Feb. 20, 1985
Federal courts and Georgia officials refused to block the execution early today of former Baptist preacher Van Roosevelt Solomon, 41, for the 1979 murder of a convenience store manager. The state Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to commute Solomon’s sentence to life in prison without parole after the Supreme Court and the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals earlier declined to hear his appeal.
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