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Texas Executes Man Who Argued His IQ Should Have Spared Him

Source: Houston Chronicle | Texas | August 8, 2012

Marvin Wilson's lawyers unsuccessfully argued that an IQ test on which the killer scored 61 - nine points below the standard for competency - should have saved him from execution under a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring execution of the mentally retarded.

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