Subject: Will Texas Execute a Man With an IQ of 61 Tonight?
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If 54-year-old Marvin Wilson is put to death today, it will not be because Texas denies that he is intellectually disabled, or as the legal literature puts it, "mentally retarded." The state just doesn't believe that Wilson, who has an IQ of 61, is disabled enough. This is a flagrant violation of the 2002 Supreme Court ruling in Atkins v. Virginia, which held that "the mentally retarded should be categorically excluded from execution," period. However, barring a last-minute intervention, a man who sucked his thumb well into adulthood faces death by lethal injection this evening. Liliana Segura has more.

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