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Scheduled Execution - Mental Retardation at Issue

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Texas is scheduled to execute Bobby Woods tonight in Huntsville. It would be the state's 13th execution this year, the 418th Texas execution since 1982. Attorneys for Woods have filed a motion to stay the execution to evaluate whether he has mental retardation. In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to execute offenders with mental retardation because of their lessened culpability and the fact that a majority of states had enacted legislation to ban execution for those with mental retardation. The case was Atkins v. Virginia. The Hood County News noted the filing.A capital punishment specialist is seeking a stay of execution for Bobby Wayne Woods, scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday evening in Huntsville...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).

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