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UPDATE: Nearly 24 hours after The Herald-Gazette and The Pike County Journal-Reporter first broke this story, the Georgia Department of Corrections has finally confirmed that Leeland Mark Braley hung himself in his cell on death row. He was found dead at 5:12 a.m. New Years Day.

Our sister publication, The Journal-Reporter, learned Friday via anonymous sources at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Butts County that convicted killer Leeland Mark Braley committed suicide by hanging himself on death row overnight Dec. 31 - Jan. 1.
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Rudy B. Knight, for years a fixture at the Lamar County Jail where he worked as a jailer and dispatcher, died early New Years Day at his home. He was commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He was also a Master Mason and past master of Pinta Lodge #88 F&AM here.

Williams Funeral Home will handle the funeral. [Full Story »]