Willie James Pye, 59, was convicted in the 1993 killing ... constitutional authority to grant clemency in a death penalty case" in Georgia, it said. Anti-death penalty groups had tried to halt ...

Last year, the state put to death Willie Pye, convicted in the 1996 kidnapping ... of proof to establish a defendant in a capital case has an intellectual disability. However, he argued that ...

The execution of Willie James Pye has reignited debate over ... burden of proof for intellectual disability in death penalty cases, with a bill that has passed the House and is pending in the ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Last year, Georgia executed Willie James Pye, whose IQ was low enough to ... disabled and brain damaged. In another case that drew national attention, Warren Lee Hill was executed ...