A judge in Georgia spared a man who murdered two women from execution after his lawyer argued he was entitled to another hearing as a survivor of childhood abuse.
Stacey Humphreys, 53, may dodge the death sentence after a new state law may allow him a hearing to argue if his crimes were connected to abuse he allegedly suffered as a child.
Humphreys was sentenced to death for the 2003 killings of Cyndi Williams, 33, and Lori Brown, 21, in the suburbs of Atlanta.
He was set to be executed by lethal injection at 7pm ET at a state prison near Jackson on
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