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Murder Of George Crooks
On March 26, 1984, in the U.S. state of Georgia, 23-year-old Robert Dale Conklin, a resident of Illinois who was then out on parole for armed robbery and burglary, murdered his homosexual lover, a 28-year-old lawyer named George Grant Crooks, by stabbing him to death with a screwdriver. He then chopped up Crooks's body into pieces and disposed of the parts. Conklin was found guilty of murdering Crooks and sentenced to death on June 16, 1984. Conklin was incarcerated on death row for about 21 years before he was executed via lethal injection on July 12, 2005, after he lost his plea for clemency. Murder Prior to the murder of his lover in March 1984, 23-year-old McDonald's manager Robert Dale Conklin, a native of Illinois who was then out on parole after serving three years of a six-year jail term for armed robbery and burglary, first met his homosexual lover George Grant Crooks at a highway rest-stop, and they became romantically involved shortly after their first meeting. At the t ...
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Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Georgia may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Georgia (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the female given name * Georgia (musician) (born 1990), English singer, songwriter, and drummer Georgia Barnes Places Historical polities * Kingdom of Georgia, a medieval kingdom * Kingdom of Eastern Georgia, a late medieval kingdom * Kingdom of Western Georgia, a late medieval kingdom * Georgia Governorate, a subdivision of the Russian Empire * Georgia within the Russian Empire * Democratic Republic of Georgia, a country established after the collapse of the Russian Empire and later conquered by Soviet Russia. * Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, a republic within the Soviet Union * Republic of Georgia (1990–1992), Republic of Georgia, a republic in the Soviet Union which, after the collapse of the U ...
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Opened in 1969, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP) is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Butts County, Georgia, near Jackson. The prison holds the state execution chamber. The execution equipment was moved to the prison in June 1980, with the first execution in the facility occurring on December 15, 1983. The prison houses the male death row (UDS, "under death sentence"), while female death row inmates reside in Arrendale State Prison. The prison, the largest in the state, consists of eight cellblocks containing both double-bunked and single-bunked cells. There are also eight dormitories and a medical unit. The prison conducts diagnostic processing for the state correctional system, houses male offenders under death sentence (UDS), and carries out state-ordered executions by lethal injection. The prison complex also contains a special management unit that houses some of the most aggressive and dangerous prisoners in the co ...
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