From The Georgia Bulletin: Georgia has issued a death warrant for Stacy Humphreys with an execution date of Dec. 17 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. On Dec. 10, Georgia’s bishops—Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., of Atlanta; Bishop Stephen D. Parkes of Savannah and Atlanta’s auxiliaries Bishop Joel M. Konzen, SM; Bishop Bernard E. Shlesinger III and Bishop John Tran—shared a public letter in opposition to the execution.

Humphreys was convicted for the 2003 murders of Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown in Cobb County.

The bishops urged prayers for the victims’ families. They called upon the state’s pardon and paroles board, and the Cobb County District Attorney to consider the impact of alleged juror misconduct in Humphreys’ trial, “as well as his own wish to take responsibility for what he has done.”

Click here to read the statement.