The Nation - News from March 20, 1985
John C. Young, who has been on Death Row for nine years for fatally beating three elderly persons, was executed in Georgia’s electric chair. Young, who lost four last-minute appeals, including one to the U.S. Supreme Court, did not request a last meal and was “calm and resolved to the situation,” said prison spokesman Fred Steeple. Young, 28, was the sixth man executed in Georgia since 1983.
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