LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who has been on California's death row for more than three decades can't be executed because he's intellectually disabled, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.
Death Sentence Overturned For Intellectually Disabled Man
By AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press, Waco Tribune-Herald
Thu, 05/24/2018 - 6:47pm
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Topics: Texas McLennan County Waco
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