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ATLANTA, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) has recognized Bondurant Mixson & Elmore with the Luminary Award at the 2021 Justice Taking Root ceremony.
The SCHR is recognizing Bondurant Mixson & Elmore for the extraordinary contributions to justice and fairness, especially your longtime leadership in upholding the right to counsel and pushing back against the cruelty of the death penalty according to SCHR Executive Director Sara Tontonchi.
Tontonchi also praised the firm s work challenging Georgia s Lethal Injection Secrecy Act, your powerful and effective efforts as amicus counsel for former prosecutors who protested the conviction of our client Johnnie Gates, and your longtime advocacy to strengthen the provision of public defense in Georgia.
rick scott of florida signed a bill into law, the timely justice act, which is aimed at speeding up the death penalty process. it s worth discussing the case of warren lee hill who s sort of another ferguson-like figure insofar as his mental sort of acute has been questioned. he s awaiting execution and you say in large part that s because there s sort of discrepancy and debate over the lethal injection and that s basically what s keeping him alive. can you just sort of explain the dynamics of that case? sure. what has prevented the state of georgia from taking warren hill s life is a lethal injection secrecy act. this is about transparency around the drugs used to commit executions, as well as where they re obtained. that s why warren hill is still alive today. the fact that warren hill has been proven to be mentally disabled and based on 2002 u.s. supreme court ruling, it is unconstitutional to execute the mentally disabled. so again, we re seeing problems in georgia, in florida, i