Though his life was spared last night when a court stepped in to grant a temporary stay of execution, Warren Lee Hill still faces the imminent possibility of lethal injection 30 days from now. Just 30 minutes before Hill’s scheduled 7 p.m. execution on Tuesday, the federal 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a [...]
Georgia Supreme Court Stops the Execution of Warren Lee Hill
July 23, 2012 | Posted by
The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously decided to stay the execution of Warren Lee Hill just two hours before he was to be put to death. But the court was not ruling on whether Hill should be executed because he is mentally retarded—the stay was based on the court’s decision to consider a recent change to [...]
