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Wed., June 18, 2014 3:41am
Georgia's first execution with its new secret source of lethal injection drugs went mostly as planned Tuesday night, despite concerns that it...
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Mon., June 16, 2014 8:26am
Marcus Wellons is set to be the first person executed with Georgia's new secret source of lethal injection drugs.
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Wed., May 28, 2014 8:46am
In 2002 the court made it clear in a Virginia case that no state may execute the intellectually disabled. Tuesday’s ruling in a Florida case picks up...
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Thu., October 24, 2013 4:00pm
Georgia’s uniquely high judicial standard for determining if a defendant is mentally retarded took center stage at a hearing Thursday at the state...
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Thu., October 24, 2013 9:26am
Georgia state lawmakers are taking a close look at a law that requires death penalty defendants to prove beyond a doubt they are mentally disabled to...
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Mon., October 21, 2013 9:42am
The state that was the first to pass a law prohibiting the execution of mentally disabled death row inmates is revisiting a requirement for...
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Mon., October 7, 2013 6:53pm
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the case of a Georgia death row inmate whose lawyers say he is mentally disabled and shouldn...
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Mon., August 26, 2013 5:11pm
The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously agreed Monday to reconsider a stay of execution. It’s for death row inmate Warren Lee Hill.
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Mon., August 12, 2013 5:00am
Attorneys for the death row inmate Warren Lee Hill have until the end of the day Monday to respond to the latest appeal in his case.
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Fri., July 26, 2013 6:03pm
The Georgia Attorney General’s Office filed an application for appeal late Friday with the state Supreme Court in the case of Warren Lee Hill.
