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 Posted: Tue 8:51, 06 Aug 2013 Post subject: said one of the experts |
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| at 7 p.m. His lawyers have already asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution. On Thursday, they said they will soon ask a state court judge to consider the doctors' new statements and will use them when asking the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to give Hill a new clemency hearing.During a key hearing 13 years ago, state attorneys called on two psychiatrists and a psychologist to refute Hill's claims that he is mentally disabled and thus ineligible for execution. All three doctors now say they were mistaken when they testified Hill was not mentally disabled."Having reviewed my earlier evaluation results and the far more extensive materials from the record of this case, I believe that my judgment that Mr. Hill did not meet the criteria for mild mental retardation was in error," said one of the experts, Thomas Sachy, a forensic psychiatrist.In their affidavits, the doctors described their evaluations of Hill in late 2000 as rush jobs. They also said they did not have all the information they |
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