The legal fight arose from a lawsuit filed when officials set a May 2022 execution date for Virgil Delano Presnell Jr. The Federal Defender Program, which represents Presnell, said the state had ...

The legal fight arose from a lawsuit filed when officials set a May 2022 execution date for Virgil Delano Presnell Jr. The Federal Defender Program, which represents Presnell, said the state had ...

He noted that under Georgia law, the definition of a natural person includes an unborn child. "Pregnant women are encouraged to get the vaccine," said Winkles. The Federal Defender Program sued the ...

Virgil Delano Presnell, Jr. is on death row for attacking two little girls as they walked home. Prosecutors say Presnell murdered 8-year-old Lori Smith and raped her 10-year-old friend.

Virgil Delano Presnell Jr., 68, was sentenced to death for the murder of an 8-year-old and rape of her 10-year-old friend after abducting them in May 1976 as they walked home from school in Cobb ...

Virgil Presnell was slated to be executed earlier this year, but a Fulton County court delayed that and a new Georgia Supreme Court decision will delay it further.

Presnell was found guilty of killing an 8-year-old girl, Lori Smith, and raping her 10-year-old friend after abducting them as they walked home from school in Cobb County on May 4, 1976.

Virgil Delano Presnell Jr., 68, was sentenced to death on May 17 for the alleged murder of an 8-year-old Lori Ann Smith and rape of her 10-year-old friend after abducting them in May 1976 as they ...