Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, and Tom Johnson, the former president of CNN during the 1990s and the former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, were inducted Thursday into the Atlanta Press Club’s Hall of Fame.
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Court upholds death penalty for man claiming mental retardation
ATLANTA — A federal appeals court this week upheld the death penalty for a man who now claims he is mentally retarded. Warren Lee Hill Jr. did not claim mental retardation during his 1991 trial. However, in 1996, Lee added to a “habeas petition to allege mental retardation for the first time, and he later claimed that Georgia’s reasonable doubt standard of proof (state law) violated the Eighth Amendment,” according to an opinion from the 11th