Georgia puts inmate to death for man's 1996 shotgun slaying

Warden Benjamin Ford pronounced Marion Wilson Jr. dead at 9:52 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. Wilson, 42, and Robert Earl Butts Jr. were convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the shotgun slaying of 24-year-old Donovan Corey Parks in Milledgeville, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta. "I ain't never took a life in my life," Wilson said as part of a final statement before receiving a deadly injection of pentobarbital.

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