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July 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 33-year-old Yokamon Hearn was convicted and sentenced to death at age 19 for his role in the carjacking and fatal shooting of a stockbroker near Dallas in 1998, DPA reported on Wednesday.
The United Nations Human Rights Council had called for Texas to commute Hearn’s death sentence on the grounds that he suffered from a psychosocial disability caused by his mother’s alcohol abuse during pregnancy.
Texas-based criminal justice system advocacy group StandDown also called for a stay in execution, saying that Hearn had suicidal thoughts at age 10 and suffered from brain damage.
Hearn is the sixth prisoner to be killed this year in Texas, but the first to be executed under a procedure using one lethal drug instead of three-drug injection method used since 1982.
Hours before the execution, the US Supreme Court rejected Hearn’s final appeal for change in the method of execution to three-drug injection, which induces faster death.
The UN is also protesting next week’s planned lethal injection in Georgia of another African-American, Warren Hill, who has been diagnosed with mental retardation.
Hill’s lawyers say the 52-year-old has an IQ of 70. He is to be executed on July 18 for slaying a fellow prisoner over 20 years ago, while the judge, who oversaw the murder case back in 1991 had confirmed that Hill was “mentally retarded by a preponderance of the evidence.”
Amnesty International has drafted a request to be sent to Albert Murray, the head of Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, to call on the state judicial authorities to reconsider Hill’s verdict.
In 2002, the Supreme Court found that the execution of people who were mentally retarded was “cruel and unusual” punishment under the US Constitution. The court, however, left definition of mental handicaps to individual states.
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