Atlanta, GA – Monday, December 8, 2014, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles met to consider a clemency request from attorneys representing condemned inmate Robert Wayne Holsey. The Board has voted to deny clemency.

In reaching its decision, the Board thoroughly reviewed all information and documents pertaining to the case. In addition to hearing testimony during the meeting on Monday with Holsey’s representatives, the Board prior to the meeting had thoroughly reviewed the parole case file on the inmate which includes the circumstances of the death penalty case, the inmate’s criminal history, and a comprehensive history of the inmate’s life.

Holsey is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday, December 9, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia.

Holsey was sentenced to death for the December 1995 murder of Deputy Sheriff Will Robinson in Baldwin County. The murder occurred December 17, 1995, after Holsey committed an armed robbery at a convenience store in Milledgeville. Deputy Robinson stopped Holsey’s car a few minutes later and was killed.

For more information on the Parole Board, please visit our website at www.pap.georgia.gov.