Georgia to Execute Mentally Disabled Man Today

52 year old, Warren Hill, is scheduled to die today. Problem is this, according to the Constitution, it is illegal to kill a man, who is declared to by doctors to be mentally incompetent.

Hills lawyers petitioned the Supreme Court on basis of the Eighth Amendment violation by the state of Georgia, but the courts have not turned the decision.

This is not the first time that the government had not intervened when states ignore this law. Men declared incompetent have been put to death over and over again.

Read more here: http://rt.com/usa/news/retarded-georgia-warren-hill-537/

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