affirmed by the state supreme court, and denied review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Wilson then filed another petition for habeas corpus, now in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, which was denied. In December 2014, a unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed, also rejecting Wilson's petition. In August 2016, the full en banc Eleventh Circuit again rejected the petition by a vote of 6-5. 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. In August 2018, the Eleventh Circuit again denied Wilson's petition. Executions 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. During his execution, he groaned and said, "It burns, man." On May 28, 2019, Wilson's final petition for certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court of the United States. Eight days later, Wilson received an execution date of June 20, 2019. The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency for Wilson on the morning of his execution date. 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. Wilson was executed by lethal injection on June 20, 2019. He became the 1,500th person to be executed in the United States since capital punishment was resumed in 1976 after Gregg v. Georgia. His execution was carried out at 9:52 p.m. ET at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Butts County, Georgia after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution. Parks' family witnessed both executions. Prior to Wilson's execution, Parks' brother said, "Execution doesn't bring him back. But what execution does is it offers a starting point for myself, my dad, our family, to finally get some sort of closure and to start healing." Parks' brother named his daughter Corey in honor of his brother's memory. See also Capital punishment in Georgia (U.S. state) Capital punishment in the United States List of people executed in Georgia (U.S. state) List