On
this date, January 27, 2015, a Prison Killer, Warren Hill was executed by
lethal injection in Georgia for two murders he committed. I will post
information about him from Wikipedia.
Warren Hill
(June 1960 – January 27, 2015) was a prisoner executed in Georgia in the United States. Hill was
originally sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting his girlfriend, Myra
Wright, in 1985. He was subsequently sentenced to death for killing his
cellmate, Joseph Handspike. In 1990 Hill killed Handspike in their cell by
bludgeoning him to death with a wooden board studded with nails.
His
execution by lethal injection, scheduled for July 15, 2013, was postponed due
to a legal challenge against Georgia's Lethal Injections Secrecy Act. This law,
passed in March 2013, makes the identities of companies and individuals who
make and supply lethal injection drugs, and the identities of the doctors hired
by the state to oversee executions, a “state secret” that must be shielded from
disclosure to the public, the media, and even the judiciary. Hill's lawyers
successfully argued that this would prevent Hill from knowing whether the
execution would be carried out by competent personnel using properly formulated
drugs. The secrecy regime was ultimately upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court.
There
was also controversy as to whether or not Hill qualified as being mentally
disabled, a designation that would have precluded him from being executed. On
this basis of his mental capabilities the European
Union had appealed several times to the Georgia Chairman of the Board of
Pardons and Paroles and Georgia Governor Nathan
Deal to prevent Hill from being executed. Hill was executed on January 27,
2015.
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