Hill was sentenced to death for the 1990 killing of Joseph Handspike, another inmate in a Georgia state prison.

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The auctions begin after 4am for costly boxes of sea urchins and move on to the warehouse for bluefin tuna, where the dealers walk round inspecting the huge animals with a torch in one gumboot and a handspike in the other.

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