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Execution date set for man convicted of Baldwin County murder

The man will be executed this summer.

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — An execution date has been set for a man convicted of a 1996 Baldwin County murder. 

A Georgia Attorney General news release says Marion Wilson, Jr., who was convicted of murdering Donovan Corey Parks,  will be executed between June 20 and 27, 2019. 

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Evidence at trial showed that on March 28, 1996, Donovan Corey Parks went to a local Wal-Mart to get cat food, and left his car parked in the fire lane at the store. A witness saw Wilson and Robert Earl Butts in line behind Parks. The two men asked Parks for a ride and got in his car. 

Shortly after, Parks' body was found lying face down in the street. 

Wilson was indicted in the Superior Court of Baldwin County for malice murder, felony murder, armed robbery, hijack a motor vehicle, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and possession a sawed off shotgun. 

Butts was executed in last year.

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