Crime & Safety
Execution Set For Atlanta Cop Killer
Gregory Lawler killed one Atlanta police officer and wounded another on Oct. 12, 1997.
A man who was sentenced to death for killing an Atlanta police officer will have his sentence carried out later this month.
On Wednesday, a warrant setting the execution of Gregory Lawler was signed, according to the AJC, for any time in the seven days beginning Oct. 19.
Lawler killed Officer John Sowa and wounded his partner, Patricia Cocciolone, on Oct. 12, 1997, after the two officers brought Lawler's intoxicated girlfriend home.
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The Georgia Department of Corrections will set the date and time of Lawler's execution. Lawler would be the seventh inmate Georgia would have executed this year, more than any other since the mid 1970s, when capital punishment was reinstated in Georgia.
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