Marcus Ray JohnsonATLANTA – An execution date has been set for a Georgia man convicted of killing a woman he met in an Albany nightclub, Attorney General Sam Olens said in a news release Monday.
Marcus Ray Johnson is set to die Nov. 19 at the state prison in Jackson, Olens’ office said. A Dougherty County judge had set an execution window that runs from noon on Nov. 19 to noon on Nov. 26.
Johnson was convicted in April 1998 for the March 1994 rape and murder of Angela Sizemore, but his lawyers maintain there is doubt about his guilt.
Sizemore and Johnson met at an Albany nightclub called Fundamentals the night of March 23, 1994 and witnesses spotted them kissing and drinking heavily. They were seen leaving the bar together early the next morning, walking toward another bar where Johnson had worked.
A man walking his dog discovered Sizemore’s body the next day inside her white SUV parked behind an apartment complex. She had been stabbed 41 times with a small, dull knife and suffered severe internal injuries when she was sexually assaulted with a pecan tree branch, prosecutors said.