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What kind of country is this? We’re the only industrialized nation that still uses capital punishment. Now we’re killing the “mentally retarded?” Ian Millhiser from Think Progress…
even mental health professionals have evaluated Warren Lee Hill, a Georgia inmate scheduled to be executed next Monday, and all seven have determined that Hill is intellectually disabled, the clinical term for the disability that was known as “mental retardation” at the time Atkins was decided. Yet, thanks to several legal loopholes that effectively cut Hill off from the Constitution, it is likely that his execution will proceed.
My talk with Ian Millhiser from Think Progress below…
