Board sets clemency hearing for death-row inmate

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has scheduled a clemency hearing Friday for Warren Hill, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on July 18.

Hill is to be put to death for killing a fellow inmate at a prison in southwest Georgia in August 1990. At the time, Hill was serving a life sentence for the murder of his girlfriend. Hill's case has attracted national attention because a state judge previously determined Hill was mentally disabled.

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Bill Rankin has been an AJC reporter for more than 30 years. His father, Jim Rankin, worked as an editor for the newspaper for 26 years, retiring in 1986. Bill has primarily covered the state’s court system, doing all he can do to keep the scales of justice on an even keel. Since 2015, he has been the host of the newspaper’s Breakdown podcast.

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