Gov. Nathan Deal has responded to the shooting of two Georgia Department of Corrections officers Tuesday with this simple promise: “Fugitives will be brought to justice.”

Deal, a lawyer and former juvenile court judge, sent out a rare news release about a criminal matter, saying he has “vowed to deploy every state resource necessary” to help capture the two inmates who escaped after allegedly killing the guards transporting them.

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