Georgia presses US supreme court to overturn Warren Hill's stay of execution

Guardian UK - The state of Georgia has applied to the US supreme court to overturn a stay of execution for Warren Hill, the intellectually disabled prisoner who came within half an hour of being put to death on Tuesday night.

Georgia's attorney general has filed a petition with the highest court in the US, arguing that Hill is not entitled to a stay of execution, because of the fact that he has exhausted all legal remedies. The petition states that his lawyer's argument that the prisoner is "mentally retarded" is not new, and has been rejected by previous courts.  Read more.