Melbert Ford

Who was Melbert Ford?

Melbert Ray Ford, Jr. was an American convicted double murderer who in 2010 was executed by lethal injection by the U.S. state of Georgia after being convicted of murder in 1987.

Ford was born in Georgia, United States. He was convicted in 1987 of killing his former girlfriend, Martha Chapman Matich, and Lisa Chapman, her 11-year-old niece, in a March 6, 1986 robbery at Chapman’s Grocery store in Georgia. Ford had told a friend that he “was going to blow her brains out,” and devised a plan to rob the store, saying he intended to kidnap Matich, take her into the woods, make her beg and then shoot her in the forehead.