KABUL: (Middle East Press) the United State has executed an African American prisoner who was suffering from being mentally disabled, according to his lawyers.
Warren Lee Hill was put to death by injection of a single drug at a prison in Jackson, Georgia, on Tuesday.
The 54-year-old, convicted of killing a fellow inmate, was pronounced dead at 7:55 pm local time.
The execution came despite last-minute efforts by Hill’s lawyers to get the US Supreme Court to prevent the move, against which temporary reprieves had been granted by different on three previous occasions.
Hill’s lawyers have long argued that the man, initially given life terms for killing his girlfriend, has been logically disabled throughout his life.
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