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marvyn wilson a fifty four-year-old death row inmate has been put to death
in texas the controversy is that many say that wilson has an i_q_ of sixty one
which technically makes them a mentally retarded or mentally handicapped
individual now the supreme court rejected without any comment the
last-ditch appeal to stayed the execution louis clearing the way for the
lethal injection the appeal cited a two thousand four psychological exam which
said it's like he was sixty one that texas benchmark for mental retardation
is about seventy-four last i don't know what about seventy-four less means it
doesn't sound like an exact number but of course measuring i_q_ is not
exactly
an exact science either
uh... the taxes federal court rejected this they said you know prosecutors made
the case that he was a street saudi criminal
the also had some biking test that showed his i_q_ was in the low ten made
it seventies yet he was committed a convicted in nineteen ninety four the
shooting death of jerry williams who was twenty one of the time who police had
identified as uh...
who had identified him to police as a drug dealer
his accomplice in the crime terry lewis was given life in prison with the
possibility of parole after lewis's wife testified that wilson confessed the
pulling the trigger
the argument about why
listen regardless of what i can tessa sixty one r seventy one r seventy five
the argument that we've used up by the prosecution was quote wilson created
schemes using a decoy to screen stuff
hustled for jobs in the community and orchestrated the execution of the smidge
demonstrating inventiveness dried and leadership
i actually don't really care whether this is a mentally retarded individual
or not why do we still have the death penalty again particularly in texas
which executed an innocent man in the recent years doesn't make any sense to
me that being said
do you think this is an argument that he had about what is the i_q_ and at what
point ten-year can you not execute someone
uh... no i mean i really think that's more of a distraction right now i mean
because the conversation she be about the death penalty overall yet unmixed
because newt on on one hand i do feel compelled to say
no one who is mentally retarded should be executed
at the same time i kinda feel like i'm taking away from the main point which is
that we shouldn't have the death penalty at all even by talking about that
right and makes it seem like if
they could somehow resolve the issue of mentally retarded people being executed
your everyone will be ok with executions for everybody else right um i greet i
think that if we're gonna oppose the death penalty we need to look at it not
just in light of this issue but at whether the station becoming people at
all period
the other thing also lewis is that people hoping that uh... they're there
was a stay of execution
governor of texas rick perry
is not going to grant estates it anyone
that has a chance of carrying out the office of governor with more on more
intelligence than he is shelf and that's probably really at the root of why rick
perry wouldn't wouldn't wanna buy into that yeah here is planning on working
out most of the state
attn degenerates get a result that way if if you follow this tactical question
about it
perhaps this has to go to uh... the federal level
not this case obviously that just repair is intelligent no-no uh... execution
style called the i mean i i think that we do need to pay at a federal ban on
the death penalty
but of course that's too much government as ron paul said i would be against
anything that morag government as we've heard of so many many times and i don't
think any president uh...
left or right is going to really
have that on the radar as a major issue now probably not