Condemned murderer Willie James Pye, who is scheduled for execution by lethal injection on Wednesday, has requested chicken sandwiches and cheeseburgers for his final meal.
He is set to be put to death at 7:00 p.m. at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, about 45 minutes south of Atlanta.
Pye was sentenced to death for the 1992 murder of his former girlfriend Alicia Lynn Yarborough. He was found guilty of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, armed robbery, burglary and rape.
He requested a last meal of two chicken sandwiches, two cheeseburgers, french fries, two bags of plain potato chips and two lemon-lime sodas, according to state prison officials.
Pye is scheduled to be the 54th inmate put to death by lethal injection.
A clemency meeting for Pye, 59, was taking place Tuesday morning, giving him one more chance in the 11th hour to avoid the death penalty.
The Georgia Parole Board was to hear testimony in favor of granting clemency to Pye, as well as opposing arguments.
Only the Parole Board holds jurisdiction to grant executive clemency to condemned inmates in the state of Georgia.
There are presently 36 men and one woman under death sentence in Georgia.
There have been 75 men and one woman executed in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
