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Warren Hill

55 years old · died January 27, 2015 · Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Butts County, Georgia

Warren Hill, 55, was executed by the State of Georgia by lethal injection at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson on January 27, 2015, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. He was Black. The Death Penalty Information Center reports that a state judge had found him intellectually disabled, a finding the Georgia Supreme Court reversed under the state's higher burden of proof. His execution was carried out despite that earlier ruling, which his supporters argued should have barred it.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. A state judge had found him intellectually disabled, but the Georgia Supreme Court reversed that ruling under the state's higher burden of proof.

Reported by: Georgia Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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