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A federal appeals court said Alabama can't execute Joseph Clifton Smith, 52, a man with an IQ in the 70s, as the court ruled that he is intellectually disabled and that his death sentence is unconstitutional.
(CNN) — An appeals court has ruled the state of Alabama cannot execute man with an intellectual disability who was sentenced to death for murdering a man in 1997, upholding
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A federal appeals court has ruled the state of Alabama cannot execute death row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith, a man with an IQ in the 70s, who was sentenced to death for murdering a man in 1997.