The court had halted the executions of Jack Alderman and Curtis Osborne in the fall as it awaited the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of lethal injections. In April, the justices ruled the procedure to be legal.

Alderman was sentenced to die in the 1974 slaying of his 20-year-old wife, Barbara, in Chatham County, for $20,000 in life insurance money.

Osborne is facing execution for the 1990 killings of Arthur Jones and Linda Lisa Seaborne, who were found in an automobile in Spalding County.

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker's office has not announced executions dates for Alderman or Jones.

The state's next execution is scheduled for Thursday night. Samuel David Crowe was sentenced to die in 1989 for killing a manager at a lumber company in Douglas County.