Texas execution halted over intellectual disability claim
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday
granted [decision, PDF] a stay of execution for a Texas inmate just
hours before he was to be put to death in order to review his claim that
he is intellectually disabled. Robert James Campbell, a 41-year-old
convicted rapist and murderer, was to be the first inmate executed in
the US since a failed execution in Oklahoma last month brought a great
deal of negative attention...
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