On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed an effort by Alabama to execute a man who was convicted of a 1997 murder. Lower courts said he was intellectually disabled after test scores put his IQ slightly above 70, the accepted standard for intellectual disability. The Supreme Court’s action leaves a lower court ruling in place that blocked the man’s execution.
Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Mark Joseph Stern, who covers the courts and the law for Slate and co-hosts the podcast Amicus.
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