A mentally disabled African American is to be executed for murder on Monday July 15.
Warren Lee Hill has had two stays of execution, one with less than 30 minutes to go before his scheduled death. Hill had already consumed his final meal.
Brian Kammer, one of Hill's lawyers, says: "All experts who have evaluated Warren Hill agree: he is mentally retarded. Mr. Hill's execution would therefore be a grotesque miscarriage of justice and render the Eighth Amendment a mere paper tiger. This case presents the extraordinary circumstance where an individual who is ineligible for a capital sentence is about to be executed.
“Mr. Hill has no recourse left but to beg the nation's highest court to intervene, and we trust and hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear his plea."
Media coverage:
Execution date set for Warren Lee Hill
WALB-TV
On July 3, 2013, the Superior Court of Lee County filed an order, setting the seven-day window in which the execution of Warren Lee Hill may occur to begin at noon, July 13, 2013, and ending seven days later at noon on July 20, 2013. The Commissioner ...
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Warren Lee Hill's execution rescheduled for July 15
Creative Loafing Atlanta
Death-row inmate Warren Lee Hill is scheduled to die in less than two weeks. Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens has announced that Hill, a mentally-disabled inmate sentenced to die for killing fellow inmate Joseph Handspike in 1991, will be executed on ...
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Execution date set for Georgia death-row inmate Warren Lee Hill
Chattanooga Times Free Press
The commissioner of the Department of Corrections on Wednesday set the execution of Warren Lee Hill for July 15 at 7 p.m., the office announced in a news release. Earlier Wednesday, a judge had signed a warrant setting a window for the execution ...
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Convicted killer gets new execution date
The Albany Herald
LEESBURG -- Warren Lee Hill Jr., a twice-convicted killer some say is retarded, has been given a new date for execution. According to Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens, Hill's latest date with death by lethal injection is set for July 15 at 7 p.m..
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GA Execution Date Set
GPB
The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections on Wednesday set the execution of Warren Lee Hill for July 15 at 7:00 p.m. (photo courtesy of the state Department of Corrections). A Georgia death row inmate convicted of killing a fellow inmate is set ...
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Disgusting
Absolutely disgusting. Execution is so wrong.
Warren Leigh Hill seeks execution delay
Warren Lee Hill Seeks Execution Delay
13WMAZ
ATLANTA (AP) - A lawyer for a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die next week is asking a federal appeals court to delay his execution until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in. Warren Lee Hill is scheduled to be executed July 15. His lawyers asked ...
See all stories on this topic »Why is Warren Lee Hill even being considered for the death penalty?
Creative Loafing Atlanta
But Hill doesn't have a right to another habeus hearing. The AEDPA*** prevents cumulative habeus requests. So Warren Hill has to go to the Supreme Court to argue that the changed opinions of the experts amount to new evidence and with the bizarrely ...
See all stories on this topic »Georgia death row inmate seeks execution delay
Online Athens
The state last week scheduled Warren Lee Hill's execution for July 15. But his lawyers, who have long claimed Hill is mentally disabled and therefore shouldn't be executed, had asked the Supreme Court in May to review his case in light of new evidence ...
See all stories on this topic »Ga. death row inmate seeks execution delay - WSAV: News, Weather, and ...
WSAV-TV
Warren Lee Hill is scheduled to be executed July 15. His lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court in May to review new evidence they have submitted. In a court filing Monday, his lawyers said the Supreme Court is currently scheduled to consider whether to ...
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More media coverage
Marietta Daily Journal
Warren Lee Hill's lawyers filed the request Tuesday. They asked the high court in May to review new evidence in the case, and the court is currently scheduled to consider whether to take up his case on Sept. 30. The state last week scheduled Hill's ...
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WFXL FOX 31
Brian Kammer, a lawyer for Warren Lee Hill, had filed the request Monday. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday sent him a letter saying the court was returning his motion unfiled because Hill's case before the court is closed. Kammer asked ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
A federal appeals court has denied condemned killer Warren Lee Hill one of his last legal recourses to avoid execution. The 11th U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta declined Tuesday to review a motion to delay Hill's execution until the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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ThinkProgress
Seven mental health professionals have evaluated Warren Lee Hill, a Georgia inmate scheduled to be executed next Monday, and all seven have determined that Hill is intellectually disabled, the clinical term for the disability that was known as “mental ...
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Last chance
Warren Lee Hill's—and the Supreme Court's—Last Chance
The National Law Journal
If Felker means what it says, then the Supreme Court must grant such relief in the pending case of Warren Lee Hill, Jr.—a Georgia inmate whose execution is currently scheduled for next Monday evening, July 15, and whose case is the rare one that ...
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Hill chooses last meal before execution on Monday
Warren Lee Hill chooses final meal
WFXL FOX 31
They say that Hill declined to request a special last meal, he instead will be offered the institution's meal tray, consisting of chuck wagon pattie, brown gravy, mashed potatoes, dry pinto beans, peas and carrots, corn bread, cake and ice tea ...
See all stories on this topic »Developmental disability groups advocate change in death penalty law
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Georgia developmental disability advocacy groups are fighting to change the Georgia law that allows a death sentence for Warren Lee Hill. Atlanta groups All About Developmental Disabilities (AADD) and the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities ...
See all stories on this topic »Georgia Buys More Execution Drug
GPB
A Department of Corrections spokeswoman on Thursday confirmed that the state will get pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy for the execution of Warren Lee Hill, which is set for Monday. The state of Georgia plans to use a compounding pharmacy to ...
See all stories on this topic »Ga. to use compounding pharmacy for execution drug
Newnan Times-Herald
A Department of Corrections spokeswoman on Thursday, July 11, 2013 confirmed that the state will get pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy for the execution of Warren Lee Hill, which is set for Monday, July 15. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File) ...
See all stories on this topic »Georgia to use compounding pharmacy for execution drug
The Augusta Chronicle
The Department of Corrections will get pentobarbital from a compounding pharmacy for the execution of Warren Lee Hill, spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan said in an e-mail Thursday. The state's supply of pentobarbital expired in March.It has become tough ...
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