52-year old Warren Lee, Hill Jr. was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7pm on Monday, July 23rd.
Hill is mentally disabled and that was the core of all the legal filings to stay the execution.
But within two hours of the execution, Hill was granted a stay by the Georgia State Supreme Court.
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