The U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay in the case of William Mize Wednesday. No dissents are noted. Justice was carried out at 7:28 p.m. EDT. Adam Thompson reports for the Athens Banner-Herald:

At the time of the murder, Mize lived in Madison County, where prosecutors said he and some electrician coworkers were trying to start a Klan-like group called the National Vastilian Aryan Party.

On Oct. 15, 1994, a few members of the group - and Tucker, who had applied to join - went into the woods in Northwestern Oconee County, supposedly to camp, after Tucker and another group member failed to follow Mize's orders to burn down a purported crack house in Athens.

Mize killed Tucker with a shotgun blast, prosecutors said.

I understand why a cautious journalist with the legal department looking over his shoulder would hedge everything with "prosecutors said," but a jury unanimously found the charges proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

About a dozen protesters from Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty gathered at the prison's entrance shortly before his scheduled 7 p.m. execution time.

Though, as a former Klansman, Mize is not the most sympathetic subject for anti-death penalty protesters, members of Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty still needed to be there, said Sara Totonchi, the group's chairwoman.