One of Fulton County Senior Superior Court Judge Stephanie Manis’ three daughters was sitting with her mother just days before the judge’s death on Saturday when Manis looked at her and said, “In my obituary, I want you to state firmly that I oppose the death penalty. Will you promise me you will do that?”
Daughter Valerie Egan said when her mother sought that promise, she had not spoken for nearly a month, impaired by a stroke that had followed cancer surgery. But on that day, “She was her old self,” Egan recalled.
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