Execution
Despite all the mounting evidence and doubts of his guilt, the Supreme Court of Georgia refused to order a new trial or even grant a stay long enough to sort through the mountains of paperwork in the case that had been withheld allowing the defense time to investigate the case further for possible exoneration. This was because he had been on death row for sometime and had not appealed any of the evidence until a death warrant was issued.
Felker was originally scheduled to be executed in May 1996, but a stay was granted and the execution was delayed during the Summer Olympics in Atlanta and he was eventually executed on November 15, 1996 at the age of 48.
Ellis Wayne Felker was put to death by electrocution in Georgia's electric chair at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, GA. The previous night, when fellow death row inmate Larry Grant Lonchar was executed for three murders, Felker had requested to be able to videotape Lonchar's execution to prove that the electric chair was cruel and unusual punishment. The next time an execution would be videotaped would be that of Andrew Grant DeYoung on July 21, 2011.
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