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Execution to go to US Supreme Court
Mental competence of condemned man in question
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Warren Hill
ATLANTA — Lawyers for a Georgia death row inmate asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to prevent the execution of their client, who they say is mentally disabled. Lawyers for Warren Hill have long argued that Hill is mentally disabled and therefore should not be put to death because the execution of mentally disabled offenders is prohibited by state law and a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision. But the state has consistently argued that Hill's lawyers have failed to prove he is mentally disabled.
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