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Georgia Prisoner Sentenced to Death for Killing Two Guards Dies by Apparent Suicide

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2023 by Keith Sanders published in Prison Legal News January, 2023, page 51
Filed under: Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Suicides, Assaults on Staff. Location: Georgia.

by Keith Sanders

Just ten days after being sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of two state prison guards, a prisoner was found unresponsive in his cell at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison on June 26, 2022. Guards performed life-saving measures, but Ricky Allen “Juvie” Dubose, 29, was pronounced ...

 

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