State of Georgia v. Willie James Pye

Atlanta, Georgia, criminal defense lawyers have represented William James Pye, age 59, who was accused of first-degree capital murder for killing Alicia Lynn Yarbrough in November 1993.



A jury found Willie James Pye guilty of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, rape, armed robbery, and burglary. For the murder, the jury recommended a death sentence, finding as four separate statutory aggravating circumstances that Pye had committed that crime while engaged in the commission of the offenses of kidnapping [269 Ga. 780] with bodily injury, rape, armed robbery, and burglary. OCGA § 17-10-30(b)(2).

The defendant was convicted and sentenced to death.



The Georgia Parole Board rejected clemency for the intellectually disabled Defendant who has an IQ of 68.

Editor's Note: The death penalty is not, never had been, and will never be good public policy.