Case highlights strict Ga. execution standard

Published July 12, 2012 11:15pm ET



ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia was the first state to ban executing mentally disabled death row inmates, but the case of an inmate who is to be put to death next week has highlighted the state’s strictest-in-the-nation standard for proving mental disability.

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