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40-629: The campus facilities have been adapted for use as the headquarters of the Georgia Department of Corrections . The facility is known as State Offices South at Tift College ( SOSTC ). The 275-acre (1.11 km) campus is 20 miles north of Macon . Tift College was founded in 1849 as the Forsyth Female Collegiate Institute. It was renamed Monroe College in 1857 and as Bessie Tift College in 1907 in honor of an alumna . In 1898, it became affiliated with

80-513: A battery of tests and diagnostic questionnaires. Tests and diagnostic notations include: the culture fair IQ test; Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) (reading, math, and spelling); scope of substance abuse (summary & detailed report); latest mental health treatment; PULHESDWIT medical scale; criminality, alcoholism, and/or drug abuse in immediate family; one or both parents absent during childhood; manipulative or assaultive tendency diagnostics; and criminal history report with prior incarcerations and

120-535: A full account of all previous and current offenses. Georgia Department of Corrections male Death Row (Under Death Sentence - UDS) inmates are housed at the GDCP. The latest report (As of September 25, 2021 ) shows a total of thirty-nine (39) male felons currently housed on Georgia's Death Row. Women under the sentence of death are housed at the Arrendale State Prison . The site of execution

160-448: A judge issued a stay of execution. Tate reversed course and decided to fight the state in a move that could delay his execution for years, said Lauren Kane, a spokeswoman for Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens. "He apparently decided he wanted to appeal," Kane added. Tate was originally convicted of the 2001 murder of a mother and her toddler daughter during a home invasion. On April 17, 2012, The State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted

200-483: A scheduled execution of a condemned inmate in the Georgia Correctional System. On April 20, 2012, The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted clemency to Greene, reducing his original death sentence to life without the possibility for parole. Greene's was the fourth death sentence commuted by the five-member board since 2002 and the first since 2008. Greene was originally sentenced to death in

240-406: A stay of up to 90 days to condemned inmate Daniel Greene. In a statement released, the board said the stay was issued to allow more time to examine claims from Greene's representatives at a hearing. The board says they may lift the stay and grant clemency, commuting Greene's death sentence to life in prison, or they may deny clemency. Daniel Greene's execution delay was the third consecutive delay of

280-506: Is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Butts County , Georgia , near Jackson . The prison holds the state execution chamber. The execution equipment was moved to the prison in June 1980, with the first execution in the facility occurring on December 15, 1983. The prison houses the male death row (UDS, "under death sentence"), while female death row inmates reside in Arrendale State Prison . The prison,

320-826: Is an agency of the U.S. state of Georgia operating state prisons . The agency is headquartered in Forsyth , on the former campus of Tift College . The GDC has its offices in Gibson Hall, located in the State Offices South at Tift College in Forsyth, Georgia . Until 2009, the Georgia Department of Corrections headquarters was in the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Veterans Memorial Building in Atlanta . In 2006, Governor Sonny Perdue announced that

360-430: Is located in the Arrendale State Prison . GDCP houses the state's execution chamber . From 1735 until 1924, persons condemned to death were hanged by the sheriff of the county or judicial circuit where the crime occurred. Over 500 of such hangings had occurred. The Georgia General Assembly passed a law on August 16, 1924, that abolished hanging for all capital crimes. Instead the condemned were to be electrocuted at

400-543: Is used as the Georgia Corrections Academy. The State of Georgia stated that the move will occur because the Atlanta location "does not facilitate effective Command & Control." There are 92 GDC facilities in the vicinity of Macon/South, while there are 27 GDC facilities in the vicinity of Atlanta/North. There are 35 state prisons in the vicinity of Macon/South and there are five state prisons in

440-596: The European Union has banned the export of drugs used for death penalty. Several states have either run out of supplies of sodium thiopental or switched to pentobarbital, a barbiturate often used to euthanize animals . Condemned murderer Marcus Ray Johnson was scheduled to be executed exactly two weeks after Troy Anthony Davis in the same execution chamber. Johnson was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, October 5 at 7 pm ET. On Tuesday, October 4, 2011, Dougherty County Superior Court Judge Willie Lockett halted

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480-638: The Georgia Baptist Convention . The name was shortened to Tift College in 1956. Tift College merged with Mercer University in Macon, Georgia in 1986. Mercer and the Tift College Alumnae Association joined together to form a partnership to preserve the legacy of Tift College. In 1987 the college was closed by Mercer. The Mercer University Board of Trustees voted to change the name of its School of Education to

520-418: The 1992 murder of Bernard Walker as Walker was trying to lend aid to a store clerk who had been robbed and stabbed by Greene. Greene is currently serving his life sentence at Ware State Prison. On July 19, 2013, Warren Lee Hill was granted a stay of execution for a fourth consecutive time only an hour before his scheduled execution time. Hill was originally tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison for

560-651: The GDCP. In November 1998 Kelly Gissendaner , a woman, was given a death sentence and was housed in the Metro State Prison . She was the first woman to reside on death row since 1992, when Janice Buttram's sentence was commuted to a life sentence. Buttram had been housed at the Middle Georgia Correctional Institution Women's Unit . The death row for women remained at the Metro State Prison, until it

600-618: The Georgia State Prison. On December 15, 1983, the first execution at GDCP occurred. In 2000 the Georgia government signed HB 1284 into law, which changed the method of execution to lethal injection, effective May 1, 2000. The first lethal injection execution occurred in October 2001. The Georgia Department of Corrections stated in its 1999 annual report that "Typically, all Georgia death row inmates are males" and are housed at

640-472: The Supreme Court had outlawed executions and nullified original death penalty laws. The State of Georgia passed a rewritten death penalty law in 1973. In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Georgia death penalty was constitutional. In June 1980 the site of execution was moved to GDCP, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the original one. The original chair was put on display at

680-558: The Tift College of Education to carry on the educational legacy of Tift College. Over the years, Mercer has continued to maintain the heritage, identity and ideals of Tift College, most notably through the Tift College Scholars Program. The program honors a select group of young women at Mercer with scholarships and inclusion in one of the university's most distinguished scholastic organizations. In 2006,

720-553: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized Georgia's supply of sodium thiopental, which attorneys for several death row inmates said Georgia had improperly imported from a pharmacy operating out of the back of a driving school in England. Hospira Inc. of Illinois, the only U.S. company that manufactured sodium thiopental, said in January it would stop making the drug after Italy, where it planned to move production, objected because

760-480: The administration of the lethal injection drugs: sodium thiopental that was previously used to induce unconsciousness; pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest; and potassium chloride to stop the heart. The 50th person executed in Georgia since 1973 was Roy Willard Blankenship on June 23, 2011; it was the first execution carried out using a new sedative, pentobarbital , replacing sodium thiopental . In March 2011, agents with

800-422: The agency planned to move its headquarters to Tift College by 2009. The state estimated that the relocation would bring around 400 jobs to Forsyth. A 2007 employee survey indicated that 49% of the headquarters staff who responded to the survey planned to move with the agency and continue employment at the new headquarters. The agency planned to relocate to the former Tift College by 2010. The ordered relocation

840-566: The date for Thursday, November 19, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7 p.m. Johnson was convicted in 1998 for the murder of Angela Sizemore and executed on November 19, 2015. Johnson was the 36th inmate put to death by lethal injection. The Paulding County Superior Court ordered the execution of convicted murderer Nicholas Cody Tate. The Court ordered the Georgia Department of Corrections to carry out

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880-460: The execution amid discovery evidence presented to the defense by Law Enforcement. The judge ruled that further DNA testing should be completed on the new evidence prior to the execution moving forward. The Dougherty County Superior Court ordered the execution of convicted murderer Marcus Ray Johnson. The court ordered the Georgia Department of Corrections to carry out the execution on a date between November 19–26, 2015. Commissioner Homer Bryson has set

920-411: The execution on a date between January 31, 2012, and February 7, 2012. Former Commissioner Brian Owens has set the date for January 31, 2012 at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7:00 p.m. Tate was convicted of the 2001 murder of Chrissie Williams and her 3-year-old daughter, Katelyn Williams. Approximately two hours prior to the scheduled 7 PM execution on 31-January-2012,

960-401: The execution room that is accessed through the holding room. This room is where the old electrical supply panel is housed that energized the formerly used electric chair. Also, there are two circular line ports through the block wall where chemical lines are fed to the execution room. This room is where the executioners, warden, and other authorized personnel maintain watch over the execution and

1000-460: The governor announced plans to use the Forsyth campus for the headquarters of the Georgia Department of Corrections . After renovation of buildings for this purpose, the move took place in 2010. 33°2′10″N 83°56′0″W  /  33.03611°N 83.93333°W  / 33.03611; -83.93333 Georgia Department of Corrections The Georgia Department of Corrections ( GDC )

1040-434: The largest in the state, consists of eight cellblocks containing both double-bunked and single-bunked cells. There are also eight dormitories and a medical unit. The prison conducts diagnostic processing for the state correctional system, houses male offenders under death sentence (UDS), and carries out state-ordered executions by lethal injection . The prison complex also contains a special management unit that houses some of

1080-549: The most aggressive and dangerous prisoners in the correctional system. The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison serves as a central hub where sentenced felons begin the process of being admitted into the Georgia State Correctional System. Numerous county jails are paid by the state to house sentenced felons until space becomes available in the prison system. Sentenced felons may spend years in local jails until housing space becomes available in

1120-501: The move. The Georgia Corrections Academy moved to Tift in Fall 2009. In September 2010 the administration began to move into Tift. Employees will reverse commute to Forsyth instead of commuting with traffic into Downtown Atlanta . The 43 acres (17 ha) Tift College campus is visible from Interstate 75 . Part of the Tift College property will be used as the GDC headquarters, and a part

1160-524: The murder of his girlfriend by shooting her 11 times. In 1990, Hill murdered another inmate with a nail-studded board at Lee State Prison in Leesburg, Georgia. Hill was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by lethal injection for his second murder. On January 27, 2015, Hill was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. He was pronounced dead at 7:55 P.M. Atlanta courthouse shooter Brian Nichols

1200-428: The observation room with a single-cell complex. The "Death Watch" cell consists of a standard holding cell, with a sink, toilet, and shower included within the one-cell complex. There is a small observation area immediately outside of the cell where two corrections officers are assigned to 24/7 security detail once an inmate is placed on "Death Watch." There is a private observation room with one-way glass directly behind

1240-434: The old Georgia State Prison at Milledgeville . During that year an electric chair was installed in the prison, and the first execution by that method was conducted on September 13, 1924. On January 1, 1938, the site of the execution chamber relocated to the newly built Georgia State Prison at Reidsville . From 1964 until 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court suspended executions, ruling that states' laws were insufficient. In 1974

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1280-476: The prison yard. Upon entry to the Death House, witnesses to executions are immediately located in an observation room, approximately 20' X 20' (6 m X 6 m), with three 16' (4.9 m) long wooden benches to seat them. When seated, a glass window is seen directly in front of the first row of benches. An access door to the left of the viewing window leads to the execution room. Immediately to

1320-553: The property of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP) in unincorporated Butts County , near Jackson . Other potential headquarters sites included another site in Forsyth, Macon , areas around Macon, Centerville , and the area near Warner Robins . The state's death row for men is in the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP) in Butts County, Georgia . The death row for women

1360-428: The right of the observation room (but still within it) is a storage area that houses the non-functional electric chair (nicknamed "Old Sparky") that was used before the implementation of lethal injection . The execution chamber proper is approximately 8' X 12' and is occupied by a gurney outfitted with sheets and pillow. Continuing through the execution chamber, there is a holding room off the right side as viewed from

1400-472: The state prison system. While at GDCP, inmates are either in the process of being classified and tested, or they are assigned as a "permanent." Those inmates who are 'permanents' will serve their entire sentence at the GDCP, while the remainder of inmates will be tested and then moved to other prisons based on their classifications. Based on published research statistics by the Georgia Department of Corrections, inmates who are being diagnosed and classified undergo

1440-531: The vicinity of Atlanta/North. The agency stated "Elimination of regional offices accentuates need to be in central GA." In addition, five previous GDC Atlanta offices would be consolidated into one new location; according to GDC this will cause more efficient operations. The moving of the headquarters would cause 80,000 square feet (7,400 m ) of space to become available in the Twin Towers complex in Atlanta. The agency considered placing its headquarters on

1480-701: Was closed in 2011. Since the establishment of the Georgia Department of Corrections, 25 officers have died in the line of duty. According to a Pew Center on the States study in 2009, Georgia had one in 13 adults in the justice system. Figures for Georgia juveniles were not tabulated. In 2010, seven Georgia state prisons had inmates that participated in an organized strike. The 2010 Georgia prison strike demanded better healthcare, more sanitary conditions in prison and more educational opportunities. Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Opened in 1969, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison ( GDCP )

1520-490: Was moved from the Georgia State Prison to GDCP in June 1980, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the previous one, which was moved to a display at the Georgia State Prison. On December 15, 1983, the first execution at GDCP occurred. The "Death House" is an isolated structure where state ordered executions are carried out. The "house" is a single-entrance fortified building, accessed only through

1560-518: Was to take place in September of that year. Five GDOC offices in Atlanta are merging into one facility in Tift. After the move was announced in 2006, many employees have moved south of Atlanta, and as of 2010 increasing numbers of employees who live on the south side of Atlanta were hired. Some employees left GDOC for other jobs after the move was announced. Four years of planning and $ 45 million funded

1600-490: Was transferred here to partake in his diagnostics for the Georgia DOC. Nichols poses a high escape risk. Due to this classification, Nichols is periodically moved within the prison complex so that he does not become accustomed to one area or established prison area routines. This information was provided by a prison official who is authorized to release this information. Before GDC decided to relocate its headquarters to

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