Senate Democrats blocked the coronavirus economic rescue package on Sunday because the package favored corporations and did not do enough to support aid individuals facing unemployment and loss of income. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was introduced by Senate Republicans on Thursday. The CARES Act was estimated to inject nearly [...]
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Georgia executes inmate despite claims of intellectual disability
The state of Georgia executed inmate Warren Lee Hill Tuesday despite arguments made by his attorneys that he was intellectually disabled. The US Supreme Court denied Hill's application for stay of execution, rejecting both his petition for...
Georgia judge denies death row inmate's challenge to state intellectual disability standard
A judge from Georgia's Towaliga Judicial Circuit ruled Monday that death row inmate Warren Lee Hill has failed to meet the state's requirement to prove intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt as a bar...
Supreme Court finds Florida IQ cutoff for executions unconstitutional
The US Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a Florida law permitting the death penalty for criminal defendants whose IQ is greater than 70 violates the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution. The case,...
Georgia high court rules source of execution drugs can remain secret
The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled Monday that a state law that makes the identity of an execution drug supplier a "confidential state secret" is constitutional. In a 5-2 decision, the court reversed a lower...
Supreme Court hears oral arguments on death penalty for mentally retarded
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on the legal standard for assessing whether an individual is mentally retarded in order to determine that person's eligibility for the death penalty. In Hall v....
Georgia Supreme Court to rule on challenge to execution drug secrecy law
The Supreme Court of Georgia heard arguments on Monday regarding the constitutionality of a law allowing the state to withhold the identities of the manufacturers of Georgia's lethal injection drugs. Last May, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal [official...
A judge for Georgia's Fulton County Superior Court on Monday stayed the execution of death row inmate Warren Lee Hill , which was scheduled for 7:00 PM that night. Hill's attorney, Brian Kammer, issued a...
Federal appeals court lifts stay of execution for Georgia death row inmate
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday lifted a stay of execution for Georgia death row inmate Warren Hill . The appeals court halted the execution in...
Georgia's Cruel and Unusual Standard for Proving Mental Retardation
Terrica Ganzy, Southern Center for Human Rights
