'Meaningful' Prohibition: Mental Disability in Georgia Capital Cases
JURIST Guest Columnist Laura Kagel of the University of Georgia School of Law says that the case of Warren Lee Hill, Jr. highlights that when the justice system allows the option of taking a person's life, as in Georgia, it...
Texas court grants stay of execution to schizophrenic convicted killer
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday ordered a stay of execution for convicted killer Marcus Druery who had been scheduled for execution on August 1st. Druery has been diagnosed as schizophrenic by...
The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday unanimously granted a stay of execution for death row inmate Warren Lee Hill 90 minutes before he was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection ....
Impossible Proof: Intellectual Disabilities and the Death Penalty
JURIST Guest Columnist Terrica Ganzy, Staff Attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights, argues Warren Hill was improperly sentenced to death and that Georgia should adopt a "preponderance of evidence" standard for mentally disabled claims in capital offense cases...Ten...
Georgia court declines to halt execution of mentally disabled death row inmate
The Butts County Superior Court on Thursday denied requests to halt the execution of Georgia death row inmate Warren Hill. Hill was convicted of two counts of murder but argues he should not be executed because he is mentally...
UN rights expert urges halt to US executions of mentally disabled individuals
UN Special Rapporteur on arbitrary executions Christof Heyns on Tuesday urged the US not to execute two individuals with "psychosocial disabilities" who are set to be put to death in Georgia and Texas. Warren Hill...
Georgia rejects clemency for death row inmate who claims mental disability
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday rejected a clemency bid by death row inmate Warren Hill who was convicted of two counts of murder but argues he should not be executed...
Extending Miller v. Alabama to All Juvenile Homicide Offenders
JURIST Senior Editor Elizabeth Imbarlina, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2014, argues that the US Supreme Court's reasoning in Miller v. Alabama can be extended to abolish life in prison without the possibility of parole sentences for...
Towards Exempting the Severely Mentally Ill from the Death Penalty
JURIST Guest Columnist Olga Vlasova, Brooklyn Law School Class of 2013, is the Sparer Public Interest Law Fellow. She argues for prohibiting the death penalty for severely mentally ill offenders...According to Mental Health America, about 10 percent of all death...
JURIST Guest Columnist Crystal Whalen, Texas Tech University School of Law Class of 2012, is a student attorney at the Regional Public Defender's Office for Capital Cases in Lubbock, Texas. She argues in favor of moving away from the death...
