By KATE BRUMBACK
Associated Press
ATLANTA The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to take up the case of a Georgia death row inmate whose lawyers say he is mentally disabled and shouldn’t be executed.
Warren Hill’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court in May for a review after three doctors who initially said Hill was not mentally disabled changed their opinions.
Hill was sentenced to die for the 1990 beating death of fellow inmate Joseph Handspike. Hill beat Handspike with a nail-studded board while his victim slept, authorities said. At the time, Hill was serving a life sentence for the 1986 slaying of his girlfriend, Myra Wright, who was shot 11 times.