Court nixes Alabama's bid to execute inmate in borderline IQ case
TL;DR
The Supreme Court, in a divided decision, dismissed Alabama's bid to execute a convicted murderer found to have borderline intellectual disability, leaving lower-court rulings that barred the execution in place and signaling how IQ scores near 70 are interpreted in death-penalty cases.
Topics:top-newspolitics#alabama#death-penalty#hamm-v-smith#intellectual-disability#politics#supreme-court
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