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Warren Hill: Another Unfortunate Case for Georgia

By National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

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UPDATE at 3:10pm on July 18,2013: Max Blau ?@MaxBlau Judge Tusan: the Georgia law "unconstitutionally limits" #WarrenHill's access to courts and his Eighth Amendment rights.Looks like Warren Hill will NOT be executed tomorrow night... The state of Georgia is once again in the spotlight regarding a death penalty case which, when examined by anyone with a sense of justice, makes the Peach State start reeking of even more rotten fruit. Or perhaps a better analogy: strange fruit. No, this is not quite a lynching any more than any execution could be termed as such, but Warren Hill now faces execution on Monday, July 15. Yes, Hill is guilty of the murder which got him to death row, but we now know with certainty that his execution would be in violation of a prohibition of capital punishment for those found to have intellectual disability, which used to be referred to as ?mental retardation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Abolish the Death Penalty on July 08, 2013 (boomark / email).