The US Supreme Court issued the green light for the execution of Marvin Wilson, a Texas death row inmate whose lawyers have been trying to get off the death penalty on grounds that he is ineligible because of his low IQ. WIlson was sentenced to death in 1992 for the murder of a 21-year old police informant. Attorneys for Wilson argue his IQ of 61 below the threhold of 70, suggests he is mentally impaired, but state lawyers claim his 2004 IQ test may have been faulty. Wilson was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening.
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