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Georgia executes inmate with low IQ who killed fellow inmate

By Danielle Haynes

JACKSON, Ga., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Georgia executed twice convicted murderer Warren Lee Hill after the U.S. Supreme Court declined a stay sought by his lawyers who said he had the IQ of a child.

Hill died at 7:55 p.m. local time Monday by lethal injection of a single drug, the Georgia Department of Corrections said.

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His lawyers sought a last-minute reprieve from the Supreme Court, arguing he had an intellectual disability making him ineligible for the death penalty.

"Today, the Court has unconscionably allowed a grotesque miscarriage of justice to occur in Georgia," Hill's lawyer, Brian Kammer said. "Georgia has been allowed to execute an unquestionably intellectually disabled man, Warren Hill, in direct contravention of the Court's clear precedent prohibiting such cruelty."

Hill was sentenced to death after beating to death a fellow inmate in 1990. He was already in prison for life for murdering his girlfriend in 1985. He was originally scheduled to be executed in 2012.

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