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December 4, 2009

Texas Prisoner Executed Despite Claims of Mental Retardation
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In Texas, a forty-four-year-old man was executed Thursday despite
arguments he was too mentally impaired to be put to death. Test scores
have shown the prisoner, Bobby Woods, had an IQ at or below seventy, the
cutoff point for mental retardation. Woods was killed by lethal
injection less than an hour after the Supreme Court refused to halt his
execution.



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