Georgia to execute US state's oldest death row inmate

The US state of Georgia is set to execute its oldest death-row prisoner Tuesday, just days before his 73rd birthday, in a case critics say is emblematic of capital punishment's excesses. Brandon Jones, scheduled to receive a lethal injection at a state prison in Jackson, has spent more than 36 years behind bars for the 1979 murder of a convenience store clerk. Death penalty opponents note that many death row inmates were sentenced to death at a time when they lacked a satisfactory defense system