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01-15-2005, 04:19 PM
Carr Execution Media Advisory
Inmate requests last meal

Atlanta -Condemned murderer Timothy Don Carr is scheduled for execution by lethal injection at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 25, 2005, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. Carr was sentenced to death for the October, 1992 murder of Keith Patrick Young in Monroe County.


Media witnesses for the execution are Harry Webber, Associated Press; Sharon Crawford, Macon Telegraph; Michael Stone, Monroe County Reporter; Angela Williams, WGXA Fox 24 -TV in Macon; and Joseph Herman Bishop, III from WNNG 1350 AM - Radio in Warner Robins.

Carr has requested as his last meal two Mushroom and Swiss Hamburgers, a Vanilla Milkshake, a Chocolate Milkshake, and two soft drinks.

There have been 36 men executed in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1973. If executed, Carr will be the 14th inmate put to death by lethal injection.

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 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday.

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