As executions decline, who is actually being executed – the worst of the worst criminals? Far from it. In fact, instead of the worst of the worst, you could say it’s often the least culpable; people with Intellectual Disabilities and severe mental illness. Read More
Rania Khalek, a writer for The Nation, has written an article called “The Death Row Torture of Warren Hill: When a prisoner faces the execution chamber four times in one year, is it not cruel and unusual punishment?” This article helps to further expose the cruel nature of capital punishment by showing the repetitive and unsettling “stay of execution” cycle. The author explores the case of Warren Hill, a man who received four stays of execution within a few hours of his scheduled death—all in the course of a year—creating an almost permanent state of uncertainty as to whether he will live or die. Read More
On July 18th, Judge Gail Tusan of the Fulton County Superior Court indefinitely stayed the execution of Warren Hill, a person with mental retardation, to consider the merits of his lethal injection challenge. Today, the State did not appeal the ruling. Read More
A Fulton County judge has upheld a stay of execution for Warren Hill, expressing concern that a new state law, which allows the Department of Corrections to keep secret the identities of those who make and distribute the lethal injection drugs used to carry out an execution, is unconstitutional. The state’s attorneys plan to immediately appeal the ruling to the State Supreme Court. If the court overturn’s Judge Tusan’s injunction, it remains possible that Hill could still be executed on Friday, July 19th at 7pm ET. Read More
Fulton County Superior Court has temporarily stayed tonight’s scheduled execution of Warren Hill so that a briefing can take place on Mr. Hill’s complaint challenging the extreme secrecy surrounding the execution in light of Georgia’s new Lethal Injection Secrecy Act. Read More
Will Georgia execute a man who has been found to have an intellectual disability by every single doctor who has examined him? That is the disturbing question in the case of Warren Hill, who faces execution on Monday, July 15. Read More