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First Post-Pandemic Death Sentence in Georgia

June 16, 2022

Ricky DuBose was sentenced to death by a jury in Putnam County, for the murders of corrections officers Curtis Billue and Christopher Monica in 2017. In September 2021, in the first post-pandemic death penalty trial in Georgia, the jury in Mr. DuBose’s codefendant Donnie Rowe’s case rejected the death penalty and sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole.

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