THOMASVILLE — The state’s most notorious killer, the much-despised Carl Isaacs, will dine on pork and macaroni shortly before his scheduled Tuesday execution.

The body of the mastermind of Georgia’s most heinous crime, the systematic slaughter of six members of a hard-working Seminole County farm family, will return to his native Maryland after his 7 p.m. death by lethal injection.

Isaacs did not make a special request for his last meal at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison at Jackson. He will eat an institutional meal of:

Pork and macaroni

Pinto beans

Sauteed cabbage

Carrot salad

Dinner roll

Fruit punch

Chocolate cake

On May 14, 1973, Isaacs, a prison escapee, and a carload of accomplices traveled to Georgia from Maryland in a vehicle they took from a man they murdered. The killers traveled through Boston, Thomasville, Cairo and Bainbridge, where they took a Decatur County road south into Seminole County.

Near Lake Seminole, they entered the home of an Alday family member and killed six unsuspecting victims.

The men died as they entered the residence. The sole woman arrived home from work and was raped there amid the dead bodies of her husband, father-in-law, brothers-in-law and her spouse’s uncle. She was taken from her home, raped repeatedly and tortured, then shot in the back as she tried to escape.

Isaacs has been on Georgia’s Death row since January 1974 — the longest of any inmate in Georgia. He also holds the title of longest-running Death Row inmate in the United States.

The murderer was 19 at the time of his killing spree. He was born Aug. 9, 1953. He is 5-foot-8 and weighs 141 pounds.

On Monday morning, the day before his scheduled demise, Isaacs will be allowed visitors before undergoing a medical examination. His body will be checked to ensure intravenous needles can be inserted properly during the lethal injection that will be witnessed by 20 to 30 individuals.

He will spend Monday night in a medical holding cell.

After a breakfast of creamed beef and grits Tuesday morning and a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich, a banana, tossed salad with French dressing and grape beverage for lunch, Isaacs will receive visitors until 3 p.m.

At this point in the death process, the names of people approved to visit Isaacs Monday and Tuesday are confidential.

“Then the process starts all over again,” Scheree’ Lipscomb, director of the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) public information office, said about the Tuesday death watch.

Isaacs will undergo a complete physical before being moved about 4 p.m. to a cell adjacent to the death chamber.

“Then he’ll be given his final meal,” Lipscomb explained. Telephone access will be made to the condemned man, after which he will be given the opportunity to make a final statement via recorder.

About 6 p.m., he will be offered a mild sedative.

“After that, the process starts,” the spokesman said.

The wait begins for stays. Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker will be at the prison to receive word of a stay.

A little before 7, Isaacs will enter the death chamber.

Witnesses will include five members of the news media. Others who may attend are prosecutors and investigators in the Isaacs case. Isaacs may request the presence of people of his choosing to witness his death.

About 65 members of the Alday family will be at the prison during the execution. It had not been decided Friday whether the murder victims’ family members will be allowed to witness the death of the man who orchestrated the slaughter of their loved ones three decades ago.

“We haven’t done that in the recent past,” Lipscomb said, adding that the decision will be up to the DOC commissioner.

The death process will take 20 to 30 minutes. Two physicians will pronounce Isaacs dead; the Butts County coroner will examine the body.

The remains will be transported in a Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab van to Atlanta for a autopsy, although not an extensive one. The autopsy will be performed at the crime lab.

David Lari of Baltimore, Md., will claim Isaacs’ body. DOC documents describe Lari as an “attorney/friend.”

Had no one claimed the body, Isaacs would have received a pauper’s burial on grounds of Georgia State Prison at Reidsville.

The man whose family does not visit him will wear a prison uniform to his death. “He’ll get a new one,” Lipscomb said.

Had his body not been claimed by the Baltimore man, Isaacs would have been buried in Georgia soil at taxpayers’ expense wearing the same clothing he died in for an event that– 30 years later — is still considered the most horrible, most unforgettable, most unforgivable crime in Georgia history.