Georgia Attorney Fights For Mentally Disabled Death Row Inmate

Brian Kammer says the state of Georgia is failing a specific population of society.

“This really I find inexplicable given Georgia’s very public and long standing commitment to protecting against the wrongful execution of people acknowledge to have mental retardation.”

Kammer is with the Georgia Resource Center and  is Hill’s long-time attorney.

He says the Georgia board of pardon and paroles should have intervened to right a wrong.

“It’s the board’s function to step in when the legal process is unwilling or unable to rectify a problem like this. I feel that the board doesn’t seem to understand its role in that respect.”

Kammer also filed a motion for stay of execution with the United States Supreme Court.

This is an appeal of an earlier filing with the court which was denied.

WABE legal analyst Page Pate says the chance of this legal request being successful is extremely remote.

“The United States Supreme Court has already considered the case or a least made a determination of whether or not they wanted to hear it and they said no, what this is an attempt to do…is to get them to change their mind.”

Brian Kammer says he went to see his client after the board’s decision.

“I think he’s frightened and because of his disability it’s difficult for him to express emotion or to talk about how he’s feeling but I can see the walls go up with him.”

Warren Lee Hill, Jr. is scheduled to be executed this Wednesday at 7pm.

Barring the court’s intervention, Hill will be the 30^th person in Georgia to die by lethal injection since 2001.