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STRIPLING v. STATE

No. S11A0474.

711 S.E.2d 665 (2011)

289 Ga. 370

STRIPLING v. The STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

June 13, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David T. Wooten, Gerald P. Word, Carrollton, Mitchell D. Raup, Carl J. Summers, for appellant.

Jeffrey Lynn Ballew, James Alan Dooley, Asst. Dist. Attys., David McDade, Dist. Atty., W. Thomas Weathers, III., Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Sabrina Dawn Graham, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Atty. Gen., Samuel S. Olens, Atty. Gen., Department of Law, for amici curiae.

MELTON, Justice.

In 1988, Alphonso Stripling was working as a cook trainee at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Douglasville. Shortly after the restaurant closed on October 15, 1988, he shot his four co-workers, killing two of them and injuring the other two. He then stole money from the restaurant and fled in an automobile that he stole at gunpoint. He was convicted on two counts each of murder, armed robbery, and aggravated assault and was sentenced to death...

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