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Georgia Executes Double Murderer<\/strong>:\u00a0 A Georgia man convicted in 1999 of the brutal murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend was put to death Wednesday by lethal injection.\u00a0 Joshua Sharpe and Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal Constitution report<\/a> that in 1967 Donnie Lance shot and killed his ex-wife’s boyfriend Dwight “Butch” Wood Jr. with a shotgun, then used the butt of the gun to beat Joy Lance to death.\u00a0 The woman’s face was so badly beaten it was unrecognizable.\u00a0 The Washington Post reports<\/a> that jurors learned at trial that Lance had terrorized his ex-wife for months with beatings, strangulation, electric shocks, threats of death by handgun and chain-saw, and more. Witnesses testified that they had heard Lance threaten to kill his wife if she divorced him or started a romantic relationship with Wood.<\/p>\n

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Additional evidence included shoe prints at the murder scene that matched prints and a shoebox in Lance’s garage along with shotgun shells that matched those which killed Wood.\u00a0 Last minute appeals were denied by the Supreme Court two hours before Lance’s execution.\u00a0 Claims raised by Lance’s defense counsel over the years included;\u00a0 bias among members of the Grand Jury;\u00a0 an incompetent trial attorney; a lack of DNA evidence;\u00a0 and borderline intellectual disability.\u00a0 While Lance’s two children by his ex-wife opposed his execution, Wood’s family supported it.\u00a0 His sister told reporters “I watched Butch’s kids grow up without a dad.”\u00a0 Lance received a lethal dose of pentobarbital at 8:56 PM.\u00a0 He was pronounced dead at 9:05 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgia Executes Double Murderer:\u00a0 A Georgia man convicted in 1999 of the brutal murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend was put to death Wednesday by lethal injection.\u00a0 Joshua Sharpe and Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal Constitution report that in 1967 Donnie Lance shot and killed his ex-wife’s boyfriend Dwight “Butch” Wood Jr. with a shotgun, then used the butt of the gun to beat Joy Lance to death.\u00a0 The woman’s face was so badly beaten it was unrecognizable.\u00a0 The Washington Post reports that jurors learned at trial that Lance had terrorized his ex-wife for months with beatings, strangulation, electric shocks, threats of death by handgun and chain-saw, and more. 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