Lawyers have resumed fighting over the mental status of convicted murderer Warren Lee Hill Jr., who was spared from lethal injection last month when a federal appeals court issued an 11th-hour stay.
Hill’s lawyers last week filed briefs pushing the same court to clear the way for a judge to review his second habeas corpus case, arguing that his execution would be unconstitutional. At issue are new opinions by the three state experts who in 2000 declared Hill not to be retarded and therefore eligible for the death penalty.
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