ONE OF TWO DEATH-ROW 'SUICIDES' MAY NOT BE A SUICIDE, OFFICIAL SAYS
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Timothy Pruitt, 43, was sentenced to death for the 1992 rape and murder of 10 year old Wendy Vincent from Lumpkin County. Leeland Mark Braley, 35, was sentenced to death in 1999 for the kidnapping and stabbing death of Kelli Hammond, an insurance agent from Zebulon. Georgia's top Department of Corrections official has now acknowledged that one of two recent "suicides" on Georgia's death row may not have been a suicide. On December 6, condemned killer Pruitt died at Augusta State Medical Prison after sustaining injuries on November 19. On New Year's Day, guards found death-row inmate Braley handing in his cell. Both were housed on death row at the state Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. Corrections officials initially called Pruitt's death an "alleged suicide." A number of family members of death-row inmates have said Pruitt's death was not a suicide and that he was likely killed by another death row inmate.
(Georgia)
Timothy Pruitt, 43, was sentenced to death for the 1992 rape and murder of 10 year old Wendy Vincent from Lumpkin County. Leeland Mark Braley, 35, was sentenced to death in 1999 for the kidnapping and stabbing death of Kelli Hammond, an insurance agent from Zebulon. Georgia's top Department of Corrections official has now acknowledged that one of two recent "suicides" on Georgia's death row may not have been a suicide. On December 6, condemned killer Pruitt died at Augusta State Medical Prison after sustaining injuries on November 19. On New Year's Day, guards found death-row inmate Braley handing in his cell. Both were housed on death row at the state Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. Corrections officials initially called Pruitt's death an "alleged suicide." A number of family members of death-row inmates have said Pruitt's death was not a suicide and that he was likely killed by another death row inmate.
(Georgia)
Submitted on: 1/8/10