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Court halts Texas execution over question of intellectual disability

Hours before Texas could carry out the nation's first execution since Oklahoma botched a lethal injection last month, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the execution on grounds that the inmate's lawyers didn't have a chance to use evidence that he was intellectually disabled.... Reported by L.A. Times 3 hours ago.

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