By Yelena Mandenberg & Yelena Mandenberg Willie James Pye, a 59-year-old man from Georgia, has become the first person executed in the state since January 2020. Pye was found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Alicia Lynn Yarbrough, back in November 1993. His execution by lethal injection was carried out at 11:03 pm on Wednesday night, the Georgia Department of Corrections said in a news release – and marked the first execution in Georgia in over four years. Pye’s lawyers made a last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking them to stop the execution. They argue that there are proce…