JACKSON, Ga. – The Glynn County Superior Court has ordered the execution of convicted murderer Jimmy Fletcher Meders.

The court ordered the Georgia Department of Corrections to carry out the execution on a date between January 16 and January 23, 2020.

Commissioner Timothy C. Ward has set the date for Thursday, January 16, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7 p.m.

Meders was convicted and sentenced to death in April 1989 for the robbery and murder of 47-year-old convenience store clerk Don Anderson who was shot twice as he lay on the floor. Anderson had been killed over only $38 the night of Oct. 14, 1987.

Police say two men with Meders weren’t involved in the killing and they weren’t prosecuted. Meders’ current attorneys claim that the other two men did the robbery and killing while a drunken Meders was in the back of the store. All three men had prior felony convictions. Meders state appeal challenged the fairness of his trial.

If executed, Meders will be the 53rd inmate put to death by lethal injection.

For more information on Meders, click here, and here.