More executions possible in Georgia

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday nearly doubled the number of Georgia inmates who are now eligible to be put to death by lethal injection.

The high court rejected appeals from three condemned murderers.

This means state prosecutors can seek execution warrants at any time for seven men whose appeals have now been denied.

The Supreme Court, on the first day of its October term, rejected three petitions that had been pending this summer. The decisions also were issued just days after the highly controversial execution of Kelly Gissendaner, who was the first woman put to death in Georgia in decades and whose case attracted international attention.

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