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Georgia paroles board weighing clemency for man facing Wednesday execution

ATLANTA — The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is weighing clemency for a condemned inmate whose attorneys are now claiming he is mentally retarded. Warren Lee Hill Jr. is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Hill had a clemency hearing before the Georgia Department of Paroles and pardons on Friday; the board did not rule. Hill was sentenced to death for the 1991 slaying of a fellow inmate in

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Ga. Parole Board weighing clemency for Warren Hill

ATLANTA — The State Board of Pardons and Paroles is weighing clemency for condemned inmate Warren Lee Hill. Hill is scheduled to die by lethal injection on July 18, 2012, at 7:00 p.m., at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga. In 1991, a jury convicted Warren Lee Hill of murder and sentenced him to death. Hill was serving a life sentence for the 1986 murder of his girlfriend, when he killed Joseph