i am sorry that i cant post the link directly but you can check aljazera or presstv. I am wondering if the so called advance country can kill a man for his re-tardness. What about cowboy( it is not from my mouth that you hear that the king mother is a witch) ?

Texas set to execute mentally disabled prisoner

Published: 06 August, 2012, 23:47

medically diagnosed “mentally retarded” prisoner will be executed by lethal injection in Texas on Tuesday, even though it violates the US Constitution.

Texas rejects scientific consensus and uses its own definition of learning disabilities – based on Lennie Small, a central character in John Steinbeck’s classic novel, Of Mice and Men. In Texas, those classified as “mildly retarded” may be executed.In the novel, the mentally disabled Lennie Small is executed by a friend after accidentally killing a woman on the farm where he works. Texas claims that anyone less impaired than the fictional Lennie should receive no constitutional protection from execution by the state.


But Marvin Wilson, a 54-year old man awaiting execution for the 1992 murder of a police drug informant, has been diagnosed as “mentally retarded” by the state’s own courts. In addition to a number of tests carried out by a neuropsychologist, Wilson underwent an eight-hour interview that contributed to the diagnosis. His school records show that he reads and writes on the level of a seven-year old, and was kept in special education classes.Wilson struggled with simple tasks throughout his life. Being unable to manage his own money, cut the grass, dress himself properly or use a ladder, neuropsychologists determined his IQ was in the lowest percentile of the population. But the state of Texas, applying its Lennie Small criteria, did not carry out any cognitive assessments of the prisoner, and requested no testimony.


Many details in addition to the state’s disregard of Wilson’s mental disability leave questions unanswered. Wilson was one of two perpetrators in the murder, and his mental illness likely left him more vulnerable than his accomplice. The main witness against him was the accomplice's wife, who in trying to save her husband, claims Wilson pulled the trigger. Still, Wilson is due to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday.

“If Wilson is executed on Tuesday, Texas will be rendering the US Supreme Court’s Eighth Amendment prohibition on the execution of mentally retarded prisoners a prohibition in name only,”
said the defendant’s lawyer.


In 2011, Texas executed 13 prisoners. Almost every year, Texas tops the list as the state with the most executions. It is also among the states with the largest population of inmates on death row, according to data from the Bureau of Justice. Wilson’s lawyer is petitioning the Supreme Court today for a stay of execution to provide additional time to prove the man’s disability.


If his petition is rejected, Wilson will be put to death in a country where the 49 other states would have let him live.

Culled from: http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-prisoner-wilson-retarded-005/

Texas set to execute 'mentally retarded' man

Marvin Wilson, deemed by his lawyers to be clinically "mentally retarded", set to face lethal injection for murder.

Last Modified: 07 Aug 2012 14:06


A man whose lawyers say is clinically "mentally retarded" is set to be put to death by lethal injection in Texas.

Marvin Wilson was convicted of fatally shooting a police drug informant nearly 20 years ago, with the sentence of death by lethal injection.

The US Supreme Court soon afterwards found the penalty to be in violation of the constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment when imposed on the mentally retarded.

Commenting on the case, Simon Whitaker, a clinical psychologist from the UK, told Al Jazeera: "This is a miscarriage of justice, he [Wilson] would have the same reasoning powers of a five-year-old child, if a five-year-old child killed someone we would not execute them in part.

"Texas courts have judged Wilson as not mentally retarded - even though psychologists measured his IQ in the bottom one percentile, about equal to that of an average five-year-old child.

"With his diagnosis he cannot make rational decisions, there will be a clear problem for him to think things through," said Whitaker.

Texas is one of 33 states, along with the federal government, which still maintains the death penalty, which still has widespread support.

A recent poll indicated more than 70 per cent of Texans approve of capital punishment for murder.

Culled from: http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/08/201287113748514657.html

skullbaba: i am sorry that i cant post the link directly but you can check aljazera or presstv. I am wondering if the so called advance country can kill a man for his re-tardness. What about cowboy( it is not from my mouth that you hear that the king mother is a witch) ?

I posted the article for you.

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Texas is one of those states that don't waste time with the death penalty so I am not suprised. Yes, america is advanced but the country is not perfect and has many short comings too. This past sunday, a white male supremacist shot dead sikh worshippers at a sikh temple in Wisconsin, USA. Last month, it was another deranged white male shooting down movie goers at a movie theatre in colorado, USA.

A few months ago, a Nigerian female nursing student was shot and killed in the classroom along with some of her other fellow classmates when a disgruntled former classmate of theirs who was kicked out of the nursing program for not passing his nursing courses stormed into the classroom and shot them dead. This happened at a private college in California. The lady leaves behind young children and a husband. she was a barrister in Nigeria before leaving Nigeria and migrating to america in search of 'greener pastures.' Na only God dey protect persin.