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July 19, 2013

Judge Extends Stay of Execution for Georgia Prisoner Warren Hill 
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A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, has indefinitely extended a stay of
execution for the mentally disabled prisoner Warren Hill over a new
state law that makes the suppliers of lethal injection drugs a "state
secret." In an order issued Thursday, the judge said the secrecy law
likely violates the Constitution. But she allowed prosecutors to
immediately appeal to the state Supreme Court. If her injunction is
overturned, Hill could still be executed tonight. Hill was sentenced to
death for killing a fellow prisoner while serving a life sentence for
another murder. His lawyers say his execution would violate a Supreme
Court ban on the execution of prisoners with mental disabilities.

 

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