Pye had lost a previous appeal on the grounds that Georgia, at the time a death warrant was signed for him, had not fulfilled certain requirements to restart executions created as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Those requirements included the return of normal visitations at state prisons.
Pye’s lawyers argued that after the state decided he would be executed, they were having issues getting in contact with him: “This is not normal or consistent with access to and availability to counsel that was previously possible, and it is unacceptable.”
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