Georgia man sentenced to death seeks clemency on grounds of intellectual disability
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Willie James Pye is scheduled to be executed on March 20, 2024. His public defenders want clemency for him because he is intellectually disabled and feels remorse.
A clemency hearing is set for Tuesday. In Georgia, those hearings are conducted in secret, with the result announced afterward.
"Had defense counsel not abdicated his role, the jurors would have learned that Mr. Pye is intellectually disabled and has an IQ of 68," Pye's public defenders wrote in their clemency application.
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