Georgia shields execution sights and sounds from public view when carrying out lethal injection
Georgia’s Department of Corrections shields some of the state’s lethal injection execution process from public view. (Contributed by Georgia Department of Corrections. Willie James Pye was put to death by lethal injection in the state’s first execution in over four years last week. Pye was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson after being convicted for a 1993 kidnapping, rape and murder of his former girlfriend. But despite the case’s