MARIETTA, GA — A new execution date has been set for a man convicted of fatally shooting two real estate agents in Cobb County nearly 23 years ago.
Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Tyrone Oliver on Thursday set the execution of Stacey Humphreys for 7 p.m., Sept. 16, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, the DOC said.
This comes after the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles suspended the execution in December 2025 to consider Humphreys' clemency application.
The Cobb County Superior Court recently ordered the execution of Humphreys be carried out between Sept. 16 and Sept. 23, the DOC said.
He is set to be the 55th inmate put to death by lethal injection in Georgia, the DOC said.
Humphreys was convicted in November 2003 of killing real estate agents Cindy Williams and Lori Brown.
Williams and Brown were shot to death at a model home in Cobb. Humphreys, who was on parole at the time of the deadly shootings, made them take their clothes off and give him the PINS to their ATM cards before killing them.
After fleeing, he was arrested in Wisconsin, where officers recovered a Ruger 9-millimeter pistol from the console of his rental vehicle.
Officers determined the Ruger to be the murder weapon, and Williams' blood DNA was found on the gun, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said in the past. Additionally, Brown's DNA was located on the driver-side floor mat of Humphreys' Durango.
After killing Williams and Brown, Carr said Humphreys withdrew more than $3,000 from their bank accounts.
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Two days after the deadly shootings, he deposited $1,000 into his account; but at the time of his arrest, Humphreys had about $800 in cash on him.
He told police that he did not remember his past actions; but Carr said when asked why he fled, Humphreys told officers, "I know I did it. I know it just as well as I know my own name."
In December 2025, U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May ruled against Humphreys regarding an agreement put in place when executions were paused during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reported.
The agreement, made between defense attorneys and the Georgia Attorney's General Office, reportedly set in place conditions that had to be met for a prisoner's execution to continue.
Conditions reportedly included: the expiration of the state's COVID-19 judicial emergency, the resumption of normal visitation at state prisons and the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine "to all members of the public."
Humphreys "failed to show that his rights to due process and equal protection would be violated by putting him to death now," the Associated Press reported.
His last meal request has not yet been released.
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