Georgia has life without parole.  A jury decides the sentence.  The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has the exclusive authority to grant clemency. 

Georgia does not guarantee an attorney to death row inmates wishing to file post-conviction appeals.  One such inmate, Exzavious Gibson, was forced to appear before an appellate judge with no representation, while the state's case was argued by experienced death penalty counsel.  Gibson lost that appeal after offering no arguments and challenged the state's failure to provide representation to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to take his case in 1999.