Georgia and Texas each executes a low-IQ killer
The U.S. Supreme Court would not stop the execution in Georgia Tuesday of double killer Warren Hill and the execution in Texas Thursday of quadruple murderer Robert Ladd. The appeals argued that both murderers were intellectually disabled.
On Tuesday, the State of Georgia executed Warren Hill, 54, for the 1990 murder of his prison cellmate. According to the Los Angeles Times: “In 1986, he was sentenced to life in prison after shooting and killing his 18-year-old girlfriend, Myra Wright. Four years later, he used a nail-studded plank to bludgeon to death his cellmate, Joseph Handspike. A jury then sentenced him to death.”
On Thursday, the State of Texas executed Robert Ladd, 57, for the 1996 rape and murder of a young woman. At the time of her murder, Ladd was on parole for the 1978 murders of a woman and her two children.
Opponents of the death penalty and lawyers for Hill and Ladd squealed like stuck pigs because the executions were carried out despite psychiatrists having declared both men as intellectually disabled.
Call me callous and cold-hearted, but in my opinion both of these multiple murderers earned the right to be executed. Good riddance to both.
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