The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Victor Saldaño, convicted of murder in Texas, who claims intellectual disability. Experts, including state-appointed ones, agree he meets the criteria, but Texas courts have disagreed, leaving his execution likely.
The Supreme Court dismissed Alabama's attempt to execute Joseph Clifton Smith, who has borderline intellectual disability. The court left in place lower court rulings protecting Smith, who has multiple IQ scores slightly above 70.
A Texas man, deemed intellectually disabled by experts, was executed for the killing of a retired professor.
Edward Busby, deemed intellectually disabled by experts, was executed in Texas for the 2004 suffocation death of Laura Lee Crane, despite last-minute appeals and a U.S. Supreme Court dissent by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
