Georgia man Warren Lee Hill who killed a fellow prisoner to be executed Tuesday
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied clemency for a death row inmate set to die Tuesday evening.
Warren Lee Hill, who is 54, is set for execution at 7 p.m. He still has a petition pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hill was serving a life sentence in 1990 for the 1986 slaying of his girlfriend when he killed a fellow inmate. A jury in 1991 convicted Hill of murder and sentenced him to death.
Hill's lawyers have long argued he is intellectually disabled and therefore shouldn't be executed. The state has consistently argued Hill has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he is intellectually disabled.
Georgia has the toughest-in-the-nation burden of proof for capital defendants seeking to avoid execution on grounds of intellectual disability.
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