After briefly announcing a March 15 execution date for Carlton Michael Gary, Attorney General Chris Carr produced four pages and 41 years of procedural history on one of the most notorious serial murder cases in Georiga’s history.

The man known as “the stocking strangler” is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the 1977 rapes and murders of Florence Scheible, 89, Martha Thurmond, 70, and Kathleen Woodruff, 74. As Carr explained in detail in an announcement on his website, prosecutors linked Gary to the string of nine similar murders in Columbus—plus others earlier in the New York cities of Albany and Syracuse.

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