Georgia Man Executed Despite 'Disabled' Claim

A man who killed a fellow inmate has been executed in Georgia despite claims by his lawyers that he was intellectually disabled.

Warren Lee Hill was put to death by injection of a single drug at the state prison in Jackson.

The 54-year-old had previously come within hours of execution on three separate occasions - however courts granted temporary reprieves each time.

His lawyers argued Hill was intellectually disabled and should not be executed.

"Today, the Court has unconscionably allowed a grotesque miscarriage of justice to occur in Georgia," a lawyer for Hill, said in a statement.

"Georgia has been allowed to execute an unquestionably intellectually disabled man, Warren Hill, in direct contravention of the Court's clear precedent prohibiting such cruelty."

Hill was sentenced to serve life in prison for the 1986 killing of his 18-year-old girlfriend, who was shot 11 times.

While serving that sentence, he beat a fellow inmate, Joseph Handspike, to death using a nail-studded board.

A jury in 1991 convicted Hill of murder and sentenced him to death.

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