Executions set in Georgia, Missouri for convicted murderers

By David Beasley and Carey Gillam ATLANTA/KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) – A Georgia man due to be executed on Tuesday for the 1995 murder of a sheriff’s deputy is mentally disabled and received inadequate representation from a lawyer who drank heavily at the time of his trial, the death row inmate’s current attorneys said. Robert Wayne Holsey, 49, is scheduled to die by injection at 7 p.m. EST. He was convicted of shooting Baldwin County deputy Will Robinson in the head after the officer pulled him over following a convenience store robbery. …
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