U.S. to Execute Mentally Retarded Prisoners

                            

ATLANTA, KOMPAS.com - U.S. Georgia State Plan, carry out the death penalty against the convicted person is considered mentally retarded spark a heated debate.

Warren Hill (52), an African-American, according to the schedule will be sentenced to death by injection on Tuesday (02/19/2013) local time.

However, Hill, who reportedly has an IQ of only 70 that made him be below the threshold of a mentally healthy person.

"There is no doubt among experts that Warren Hill is mentally retarded," said attorney Brian Kammer wrote in a plea for leniency for Hill.

"Because execution Mr. Hill would be a fundamental error of our legal system, the court shall set penalties that have been undertaken and cancel the death sentence Mr. Hill," added Kramer.

Warren Hill was a death row for 21 years after killing a fellow inmate. Supposedly, Hill was executed in July. Previously, Hill was sentenced to life for killing his girlfriend.

However, the execution will be delayed a few months to decide how capital punishment carried out. If ekseskusi be implemented then Hill would be the first death row inmate who had received only one injection of pentobarbital matu. Usually a person sentenced to death three doses injected lethal drugs.

U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision banning the death penalty for convicts proven mentally retarded in 2002. However, the Supreme Court provides flexibility for each state to interpret the meaning of mental retardation.

Georgia is a state that is very tight compared to other U.S. states in determining the status of this retarded. The court requires "evidence of mental retardation indisputable", a condition which, according to health experts commented very difficult to meet.

Actually a court in Georgia had agreed to request attorney Warren Hill and decided to cancel the penalty dead.

However, the decision was overturned by the state high court, because Hill is considered to provide irrefutable evidence mental retardation.

"Because the State of Georgia has never challenged the results of IQ Mr. Hill are only 70, so he does not need to meet the requirements, "said Executive Director of Development Disabilities Council Georgia, Eric Jacobson, in a weekly paper that criticized the plan's execution.

human rights activist groups, including UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, recommended to delay the death penalty and called for the U.S. government to change the punishment Hill.

"The world community again saw with concern the current Georgia state once again preparing for the death penalty unjust, "the UN Human Rights Rapporteur Christof Heyns.

" There is no honor whatsoever as to kill children, the mentally ill and those who are mentally retarded, "added Christof.

If the death penalty still carried out, then this is the first execution in Georgia since 2011.