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(a) A person commits the offense of voluntary manslaughter when he causes the death of another human being under circumstances which would otherwise be murder and if he acts solely as the result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion resulting from ser
Two inmates died on the same day at Coastal State Prison in Georgia on February 26. Four inmates total died at the facility in February.
A Hancock County jury convicted inmate Vershaun Smith of malice murder for fatally stabbing fellow prisoner Corey July in June 2025. Smith received life without parole.
A lawsuit alleges Georgia prison officials ignored repeated warnings about a gun at Smith State Prison before an inmate used it to kill food service worker Aureon Shavea Grace in June 2024.
Marquavious Knox, a 34-year-old inmate at Riverbend Correctional Facility in Baldwin County, was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2026. The cause of death remains undetermined.
Vershaun Smith convicted of malice murder for fatally stabbing fellow inmate Corey Jose July at Hancock State Prison in June 2025. Smith sentenced to life without parole.