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Jul 19, 2010

Federal Inmate Faces Execution Despite Clear Evidence of Intellectual Disability

Bruce Webster faces a fed­er­al exe­cu­tion despite new evi­dence – includ­ing eval­u­a­tions by three doc­tors – indi­cat­ing he is intel­lec­tu­al­ly dis­abled. Although the U.S. Supreme Court banned the exe­cu­tion of the men­tal­ly…