Georgia executes man for 1994 murder

April 1, 2016 at 12:45 a.m. | Updated April 1, 2016 at 2:49 p.m.

by Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 21, 2010, file photo shows the death chamber of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. The number of people executed in the United States in 2015 dropped to the lowest level since 1991 as states impose fewer death sentences and defendants in capital cases have access to better legal help. The Death Penalty Information Center, a group that opposes executions and tracks the issue, said 28 inmates were executed this year. That’s down from 35 last year and far below the peak of 98 in 1999. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
FILE - This Sept. 21, 2010, file photo shows the death chamber of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. The number of people executed in the United States in 2015 dropped to the lowest level since 1991 as states impose fewer death sentences and defendants in capital cases have access to better legal help. The Death Penalty Information Center, a group that opposes executions and tracks the issue, said 28 inmates were executed this year. That’s down from 35 last year and far below the peak of 98 in 1999. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Joshua Daniel Bishop was executed Thursday evening at 9:27 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia, according to a news real ease from.

The sentence was carried out after the United States Supreme Court denied Bishop's request for a stay of execution.

Bishop was sentenced to death in 1996 after the 1994 beating death of 43-year-old Leverett Lewis Morrison in Milledgeville, Ga.

Morrison was killed after he, Bishop and co-defendant Mark Anthony Braxley had spent a day drinking and smoking crack at a trailer residence in east Baldwin County. Prosecutors said when Bishop decided to steal Morrison's car, Bishop and Braxley beat Morrison to death and left his body near two dumpsters.

Morrison's car was taken to a nearby pond and burned.

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