Texas executed mentally disabled prisoner — RT
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A medically diagnosed “mentally retarded” prisoner was executed by lethal injection in Texas, even though a 2002 Supreme Court ruling deemed him ineligible for the death penalty.
On Tuesday, the lawyers of 54-year old Marvin Wilson petitioned the Supreme Court for a stay of execution, which would give additional time to prove the man’s disability, but the Court rejected the appeal just two hours before he was scheduled to receive lethal injection.
The Texas judge considered the man a “street-savvy criminal” for his involvement in the 1992 murder of a police drug informant.
At 6:27 pm, Wilson was executed before his friends and family.