ATLANTA — Prison officials in Georgia have scheduled an execution later this month for a man convicted of fatally shooting two real estate agents in Atlanta's suburbs two decades ago.

Stacey Humphreys is scheduled to be put to death at 7 p.m. on Dec. 17, according to the Department of Corrections. Humphreys was convicted of malice murder in the 2003 killings of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown.

Humphreys, 52, would be the first person executed in Georgia this year.

Humphreys’ lawyers declined to comment Wednesday on his execution date being set.

Humphreys entered a sales office in a model home for a new subdivision in Powder Springs, a suburb about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta, around midday on Nov. 3, 2003. The two women worked there as real estat

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