Former Madison County Resident Executed Last Night For 1994 Murder
by Matt Johnson, 105.1 WSGC
“I’ve made my peace with God. I’m ready.” Those were the last words convicted killer William Mark Mize spoke before being executed by the state last night at the Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison in Jackson.
Mize was executed for the 1994 death of Eddie Tucker.
Shortly before the start of his execution, Mize gave a final statement where he stated that he was sorry that his friend had been killed, but he was still proclaiming his innocence, saying that his case had been a “travesty of justice” and that Oconee County, GA sheriff Scott Berry had victimized him by planting evidence and setting him up.
After his statement and a prayer, the execution started at 7:12 with a shot of Sodium Pentothal run intravenously through Mize’s body to sedate him. After that, 50 milligrams of the drug Pavulon was used to paralyze him, and a fatal shot of potassium-chloride stopped his heart. Mize was pronounced dead at 7:28.
His death marks the 22nd inmate in Georgia to be put to death by lethal injection.
