Ray Cromartie
Ray "Jeff" Cromartie, 52, was executed by lethal injection on the evening of Wednesday, November 13, 2019, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. His stepbrother, Eric Major, was in Birmingham, Alabama, that night and could not stop thinking about him, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Cromartie insisted until the end that he had not committed the crime, and his efforts to obtain new DNA testing failed even though the victim's daughter supported it. He declined to make a final statement.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. He maintained his innocence, and his efforts to obtain new DNA testing failed even though the victim's daughter supported it.
Reported by: Georgia Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.