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The article reports that prosecutor Robert E. Owens has been criticized by Georgia, Atlanta's attorney general Troy King for arguing that a man on death row should not be executed. Marcus Presley and LaSamuel Gamble were convicted of double murders wherein Gamble pulled the trigger. As Gamble's death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment as he was below 18 at the time of the murders, Owens has argued that Presley's sentence should also be changed to life imprisonment.

The article reports on the court order over the prison sentence of sex crime convict Genarlow Wilson in Atlanta, Georgia. On June 11, 2007, a judge ordered Wilson's release. Wilson is serving 10-year prison sentence without parole for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he himself was 17. But soon after the order, Georgia's attorney general, Thurbert E. Baker, said that he would appeal the order in the state supreme court.

The article reports that the bill aimed to help a student athlete Genarlow Wilson of Atlanta, Georgia, may face trouble in the Georgia General Assembly. Wilson is serving a 10-year prison sentence for committing a sex crime or oral sex with a 15-year old classmate. The bill was sponsored by senator Emanuel D. Jones.