27-01-2015 18:17 via theguardian.com

Georgia again plans to execute intellectually disabled inmate

Warren Hill, who has come hours away from execution four times in as many years, will be executed at 7pm barring a US supreme court-issued stayGeorgia is hours away from executing an intellectually disabled man, in an apparent violation of a constitutional ban that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.Warren Hill is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday at 7pm for killing a fellow prisoner, Joseph Handspike, in 1990. It is the fourth time Hill has come within hours of executi
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