G
eorgia Department of Corrections has set the execution of Stacey Humphreys for 7 p.m. on Dec. 19. The 52‑year‑old was convicted of malice murder in the 2003 deaths of real‑estate agents Cindy Williams (33) and Lori Brown (21) in Cobb County. On Nov. 3, 2003, Humphreys entered a sales office in a model home in Powder Springs, forced the women to strip, obtained their bank PINs, then shot them and stole their driver’s licenses, bank and credit cards. At the time of the murders he was on parole for a 1993 theft conviction and had been released 13 months earlier.

    Witnesses reported seeing a man matching Humphreys’ description at the office and a black Dodge Durango in the parking lot. Police tracked him to his Dunwoody home, but he fled. A high‑speed chase led to his arrest in Wisconsin. A Ruger handgun recovered from the Jeep he used matched the 9 mm bullets that killed the women; blood on the gun matched Williams’ DNA, and blood in his truck matched Brown’s.

    Humphreys was found guilty in 2007 and appealed through the federal courts, reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, alleging a juror’s misconduct influenced the death‑penalty verdict. The Court denied certiorari earlier this year.

    Georgia’s execution protocol uses pentobarbital. If carried out as scheduled, Humphreys will be the state’s first execution of 2025 and the 55th inmate to die by lethal injection.