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Additional Coverage of the Woods Execution

By Steve Hall

Chris McGreal writes, "Texas executes man at centre of mental disability row," for the Guardian.  It's datelined Washington, DC.Texas has executed a child killer at the centre of a bitter dispute over what defines legal mental impairment after several courts ruled that he could be put to death despite a low IQ. Bobby Wayne Woods, 44, was killed by lethal injection for raping and murdering his girlfriend's 11-year-old daughter after the US supreme court denied a last minute appeal by lawyers who argued that the condemned man fell within a ruling by the same court in 2002 that the mentally impaired could not be sentenced to death. After being told that the supreme court had refused to intervene, Woods' last words were: "Bye...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).