Attorney General Chris Carr’s office can’t backtrack on a deal it struck with some of Georgia’s longest-serving death row prisoners that bars their executions until COVID-19 vaccines are available to everyone — even newborns — a Fulton County judge ruled.

Judge Shukura Ingram sided with a group of Georgia capital defense attorneys in their efforts to keep at least nine condemned men alive, saying the AG’s office violated a 2021 memorandum in which the state agreed to halt most executions until vaccines were available to “all” members of the public, not “some.”

COVID-19 vaccines are not yet available to people under 6 months of age, the judge noted.

The attorney general argued that the pandemic is over and that the agreement the state reached with the prisoners has served its purpose, bu

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