COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Supreme Court heard the appeal of a death row inmate convicted of the 1985 murder of a 12-year-old boy in Trumbull County Wednesday morning.

Justices heard arguments for and against the appeal of Danny Lee Hill, who was convicted of the 1985 murder of Raymond Fife in Warrne. Hill is asking not to be executed, claiming he is intellectually disabled.

At the time of his trial, Hill was described as "intellectually disabled," but there were no laws forbidding states from executing the intellectually disabled until 2002.

More than a decade later, in 2018, a state-hired expert reevaluated Hill under updated guidelines and determined that Hill was indeed intellectually disabled.

Danny Lee Hill

From there, Hill once again asked for postconviction relief, but that re

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