Legal Opinion
Dawson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 5, 2001No. S01A1041, S01A1210PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hunstein, Justice.
The State is seeking the death penalty against Timothy Carl Dawson, who has been charged with four murders and numerous other crimes in Fulton County, and against Carzell Moore, in his new sentencing trial following his conviction for the 1976 murder and rape of Teresa Allen in Monroe County. See Moore v. State, 240 Ga. 807 (243 SE2d 1) (1978). Challenges were raised in both cases to the State’s use of electrocution as the method of executing persons sentenced to death for capital offenses in Georgia. The trial court in Dawson’s case found that the use of electrocution…
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