http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4126154.stm
A jury in the US state of Virginia has decided that a man with learning difficulties on death row is intelligent enough to be executed.
Daryl Atkins has twice been sentenced to death for murder, but in 2002 won a Supreme Court ruling that the mentally retarded cannot be put to death.
However, the court said it was up to individual states to apply the ruling.
To escape execution in Virginia, an inmate has to prove he has an IQ of 70 or less; but Atkins scored 76 recently.
He had previously scored 59 in 1998.
The intellectual stimulation he got from constant contact with lawyers in the case is thought to have raised his IQ above the threshold of 70.
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Originally posted by ivanhoeWell yeah, but even if he had started at 125 he still would have wound up with the same score. 🙂
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4126154.stm
A jury in the US state of Virginia has decided that a man with learning difficulties on death row is intelligent enough to be executed.
Daryl Atkins has twice been sentenced to death fo ...[text shortened]... s it say what it says ? Yes, it does !!
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Lawyers ......
EDIT: The fact that this guy was too stupid to intentionally fail the IQ test doesn't say much for his intellect. He should be disqualified from execution just for that.
Originally posted by ivanhoeToo bad contact with me has failed to raise your IQ level, Ivanhoe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4126154.stm
A jury in the US state of Virginia has decided that a man with learning difficulties on death row is intelligent enough to be executed.
Daryl Atkins has twice been sentenced to death for murder, but in 2002 won a Supreme Court ruling that the mentally retarded cannot be put to death.
However, the cou ...[text shortened]... d the last sentence ..... Does it say what it says ? Yes, it does !!
😲
Lawyers ......