Legal Opinion
Warren Lee Hill, Jr. v. Carl Humphrey
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 22, 2011No. 08-15444PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HULL, Circuit Judge:
In 1996 state habeas proceedings, Warren Lee Hill, Jr. unsuccessfully alleged that he is mentally retarded and ineligible *1337for the death penalty. Hill, a Georgia death row inmate, was able to raise this claim in 1996, well before the Atkins decision1 was issued in 2002, because in 1988 the State of Georgia led the nation by abolishing the death penalty for mentally retarded defendants. See O.C.G.A. § 17-7-131 (1988 statute prohibiting death penalty where defendant proves mental retardation beyond reasonable doubt).
Although Georgia already prohibited executing mentally…
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