Executed
Joshua Daniel Bishop
Joshua Daniel Bishop, 41, was executed by lethal injection on March 31, 2016, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Butts County, as the Georgia Department of Corrections carried out his sentence. Shortly before the execution, the Georgia Supreme Court and the State Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to halt it or grant clemency, and the United States Supreme Court denied a stay. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported these final legal rulings, which the attorney general's office and state officials presented as the last steps in the process.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Georgia Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Georgia attorney general's office.