UNDATED - A petition has been launched via a Web site to try to convince the state not to execute an Oakwood killer.
By 5:00 Thursday morning, 68 people had signed the petition aimed at stopping the March 1 scheduled execution of Stephen Anthony Mobley.
Mobley is the Lawrenceville man convicted and sentenced to death for the 1991 robbery-murder of John Collins at the Domino's Pizza on Mundy Mill Road which Collins managed.
The petition, in addition to asking that Mobley's sentence be commuted, also attacks what it calls Georgia's "flawed" criminal justice system.
The petition says, in part:
"The death penalty targets the poor, and uneducated, and contributes to the ongoing cycle of violence among our youth, showing them that state sponsored killing is justifiable. Statistics have shown the death penalty has not been proven to be a deterrent to crime.
We also ask that members of the Parole Board who have absolute power to decide life or death of those convicted of felony murder, and other crimes, should be above reproach. absolute power breeds tyranny, and corruption, as we've seen in the recent past, by the resignations, indictments, lawsuits for sexual harassment, and convictions of Georgia Parole Board Members.
Georgia is getting ready to put Stephen Anthony Mobely to death, against the wishes of the family of his victim, and the Parole Board has refused to commute his sentence of death, to life in prison without parole. We ask that they reconsider their decision, or that their authority to make such a decision be terminated, until such time that the integrity of their decision makers are satisfactory to the citizens of this state."
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May 19th, 2024
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