"This was the 1500th execution"

The Daily Crime

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🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Twenty five years ago this week, 24-year-old Donovan Parks was killed in Milledgeville, Georgia. One of the men convicted of his murder would become the 1,500th person executed by lethal injection in the United States. Journalist Jeremy Campbell served as a media witness to the execution. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:03.0	It's much more personal than I expected it to be.
0:08.0	His eyes were looking around the room, and it's a very small room.
0:12.9	For Vault Studios, I'm Reed Redmond.
0:15.5	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:28.5	On his way home from Bible study with his dad,
0:32.5	24-year-old Donovan Parks decided to check an errand off his list.
0:36.6	He stopped out of Walmart in Millageville, Georgia, to pick up some pet food.
0:41.5	It was just another Thursday night, until it wasn't.
0:47.3	It was in front of this house just after 10 o'clock Thursday night that gunshots rang out.
0:51.8	At that Walmart, Parks had offered to give a couple younger guys a ride home.
0:55.3	He recognized one of them from an old job at a Burger King,
1:00.9	and he never suspected he was putting himself in danger. The people inside ran out and found 24-year-old Donovan Corey Park lying in the middle of the street, a gunshot blast to his head.
1:06.9	Parks would die from that gunshot wound, and his attackers had driven off in his car.
1:11.6	Eight hours later, the Bibb County Sheriff's Department found Parks blue,
1:15.6	Accura Vigour behind the huddle house on Jeffersonville Road in the old Lakeside Park area.
1:20.6	Whoever abandoned it first set it on fire, and as you can see from this video,
1:25.6	when firefighters arrived on the scene, it was still
1:28.7	burning.
1:32.6	Jeremy Campbell, you've done a ton of reporting on the case that we're looking at today,
1:37.0	and we'll get into a lot of it. But let's start all the way back in 1996. This is a tragic
1:43.3	story, but you reported that the whole thing started with an act of
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