News Release - June 3, 2008
Georgia Department of Corrections
James E. Donald, Commissioner
Director of Public Information
Susan Phillips
Contact: Office of Public Affairs (404) 656-9772
For Immediate Release
Osborne Execution Media Advisory
Inmate requests last meal
Atlanta –Condemned murderer Curtis Osborne is scheduled for execution by lethal injection at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 4, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. Osborne was sentenced to death for the double murder of a Spalding County couple in 1991.
Media witnesses for the execution are Greg Bluestein, Associated Press; Sheila Marshall, Griffin Daily News; Rhonda Cook, Atlanta Constitution; Joel Foster, 920am WGKA; and Sarah Parker, CBS46.
Osborne has declined a special last meal request and instead will have the institution’s meal tray, consisting of grilled cheeseburger, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, cole slaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
There have been 41 men executed in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1973. If executed, Osborne will be the 19th inmate put to death by lethal injection. There are presently 109 men and one female on death row in Georgia
The Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison is located 45 minutes south of Atlanta off Interstate 75. From Atlanta, take exit 201 (Ga. Hwy. 36), turn left over the bridge and go approximately ¼ mile. The entrance to the prison is on the left. Media covering the execution will be allowed into the prison’s media staging area beginning at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
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