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Texas Set to Execute 'Mentally Retarded' Man
August 07, 2012 from Al Jazeera English
A man whose lawyers say is clinically "mentally retarded" is set to be put to death by lethal injection in Texas. Marvin Wilson was convicted of fatally shooting a police drug informant nearly 20 years ago, with the sentence of death by lethal injection. The US Supreme Court soon afterwards found the penalty to be in violation of the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment when imposed on the mentally retarded. Psychologists measured Wilson's IQ in the bottom one percentile, or about equal to that of an average five-year-old child.
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