The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to let the state of Alabama execute an inmate who contends an intellectual disability combined with the state s inattention cost him a chance to avoid lethal injection and choose a new method
A poor reader, Matthew Reeves is intellectually disabled and wasn't capable of making a decision on the method of execution without assistance, his lawyers arg93ued.
Alabama executed an inmate by lethal injection for a 1996 murder on Thursday after a divided U.S. Supreme Court sided with the state and rejected defense claims the man had an intellectual disability that cost him a chance to choose a less "torturous," yet untried, execution method.
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