On March 28, 1996, Donovan Corey Parks, an American corrections officer, was murdered by two gang members in Baldwin County, Georgia.

His two killers, Robert Earl Butts Jr. (May 14, 1977 – May 4, 2018) and Marion Wilson Jr. (July 29, 1976 – June 20, 2019) were executed for the crime by the state of Georgia via lethal injection, in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

[5] On January 31, 1989, Wilson and two other boys started a fire at an apartment in Glynn County while the residents were home.

[5] In January 1993, Wilson and another boy attacked Daniel Rowe at school while he was drinking from a water fountain.

[5] On July 26, 1993, a man named Robert Loy Underwood bought cocaine from Wilson and another boy.

After initially claiming self-defense, Wilson admitted to shooting Underwood and served time in a juvenile detention center.

[9] His dead body was found lying face down on a residential street not far from the parking lot.

Butts and Wilson fled in the stolen car, which they later burned after being unsuccessful in their attempt at finding someone to sell it to.

[12] In December 2014, a unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed, also rejecting Wilson's petition.

[16] In April 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed and remanded by a vote of 6–3 in Wilson v. Sellers, finding that the Eleventh Circuit had erred under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 by failing to consider the reasoning in lower, earlier, written state court decision.

[17] Butts was executed by lethal injection on May 4, 2018, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, 10 days before what would have been his 41st birthday.

[21] The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency for Wilson on the morning of his execution date.

[22] He requested a last meal of one medium thin-crust pizza with everything, 20 buffalo wings, one pint of butter pecan ice cream, some apple pie and grape juice.