Post by CMF Newsman on Jul 24, 2012 5:42:22 GMT -5
ATLANTA, GA -- The Georgia Supreme Court granted Warren Hill a stay of execution Monday, less than 2 hours before he was to die by lethal injection, officials said.
The court unanimously granted the stay to determine whether a recent change to Georgia's lethal-injection protocol violates state law, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Hill, 52, is on death row for bludgeoning to death a fellow inmate in 1991, when he was serving a life sentence for the 1985 death of 18-year-old girlfriend.
Advocacy groups for the developmentally disabled have been trying to stop Hill's execution. Hill has an IQ of 70 and two judges have ruled Hill is probably not mentally disabled.
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/07/23/Court-issues-stay-in-Ga-execution/UPI-70371343092023/
The court unanimously granted the stay to determine whether a recent change to Georgia's lethal-injection protocol violates state law, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Hill, 52, is on death row for bludgeoning to death a fellow inmate in 1991, when he was serving a life sentence for the 1985 death of 18-year-old girlfriend.
Advocacy groups for the developmentally disabled have been trying to stop Hill's execution. Hill has an IQ of 70 and two judges have ruled Hill is probably not mentally disabled.
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/07/23/Court-issues-stay-in-Ga-execution/UPI-70371343092023/