Late afternoon on July 3 when the least possible number of people would be paying attention, using a new law that makes the acquisition of execution drugs a state secret, Georgia scheduled the execution of Warren Hill, who is now set – barring intervention from the US Supreme Court or the Georgia Attorney General – to be put to death on July 15.
Georgia authorities did this despite the fact that:
- The victim’s family opposes the execution
- Several jurors from the trial now object to the execution
- All 7 doctors who have examined him now agree that Hill is intellectually disabled
- The US Supreme Court banned execution of the intellectually disabled in 2002
- A petition on that very issue is currently pending at the Supreme Court, scheduled to be considered on September 30, roughly 6 weeks after Warren Hill is executed
- If the execution is carried out, it will be over the objections of whatever companies manufacture whatever drugs Georgia officials have secretly acquired