ATLANTA, July 4 (UPI) -- 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 was within two hours of being executed Feb. 19 when the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta halted the execution so judges could consider new evidence of his mental status.
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 recourse left but to beg the nation's highest court to intervene, and we trust and hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear his plea."
