Ibrahim Dosso
                                                                                                                 February 20, 2013





                                                        THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT


                                                                  The Eighth Amendment, which was ratified in 1789, prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture. According to the U.S Supreme Court, the law applies to the States.

                                                             Warren Hill is a prisoner who was in prison since 1990 for killing his girlfriend and while he was in jail, he murdered his cellmate. Warren Hill currently has an IQ below 70. Despite all this he will be executed in the state of Georgia by a dose of the sedative pentobarbital. This is a violation of the eighth amendment that prohibits cruel and unusual punishments by law. This was taken to  In the first testimony, the state's expert witnesses stating in their testimony that Hill was not mentally retarded.


                                    Before this case, the state of Texas was allowed to execute a man who had an IQ of 61 who sucked his thumb as an adult and didn't know how to use a phone book.

                                  Warren Hill's case of execution as of now is in legal uncertainty because every doctor who examined him diagnosed as mentally retarded and to execute him is against the Eighth Amendment.