For First Time, State Uses Lethal Injection
A man convicted of killing a woman during a 1982 convenience store robbery became the first Georgia inmate to die by injection.
Terry Michael Mincey, 41, had been scheduled to die in the electric chair until Oct. 5, when the state’s high court ruled that the chair violated the ban on cruel and unusual punishment. That shifted all the state’s executions to injection.
Mincey was convicted of the April 1982 killing of Paulette Riggs.
Mincey’s death was the first execution in Georgia since June 1998. The state currently has 127 men and one woman on death row.
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