USA (Georgia): Execution scheduled despite mental disability: Warren Hill

Index Number: AMR 51/058/2012
Date Published: 10 July 2012
Categories: USA

Warren Hill, a 52-year-old African American man, is due to be executed in the US state of Georgia on 18 July for the 1990 murder of a fellow prisoner. He has a mental disability the seriousness of which leaves the constitutionality of his execution in real doubt.