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Save Warren Hill from execution

Created by C.B. on July 05, 2013

Georgia has rescheduled the execution of Warren Hill who in February received a last-minute stay to evaluate claims he is mentally disabled, officials said.

Hill, whose defense team says is mentally disabled with an IQ of 70, was serving a life sentence for the 1985 murder of his girlfriend, Myra Wright, when he killed a fellow Georgia state prison inmate, Joseph Handspike, in 1990.

The court rejected Hill's mental retardation claims in April, saying the evidence had already been considered and rejected.

He's now set to be executed July 15, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday.

"This case presents the extraordinary circumstance where an individual who is ineligible for a capital sentence is about to be executed," said Hill's attorney Brian Kammer. "Mr. Hill has no reco

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