Clinton Bankston Jr. 222862
Telfair State Prison
P.O. Box 549
Helena, GA 31037
On May 12, 1988 — his seventeenth birthday — Bankston pled guilty, but mentally ill on five counts of first-degree murder. Rescued from death row by a state law forbidding execution of killers 16 or younger at the time of their offense, he was sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment. The murder weapon was believed to be a hatchet, recovered at the scene, but mutilations were so extensive that verification and identification of the victims came only through post mortem testing