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Executing mentally impaired convicts: East Texans talk-back

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POSTED: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 7:19am

UPDATED: Monday, August 13, 2012 - 7:44pm

Wislon set to die by lethal injection Tuesday at six

Tyler — Convicted killer, Marvin Wilson, is scheduled to be executed at 6 this evening. He was found guilty, in the shooting death of a 21-year-old police informant in Beaumont.

Wilson has an i-q score of 61; below the first percentile by american standards. East Texns asked: Do you oppose executing murderers who are mentally impaired?
 

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tonks August 13, 2012
at 3:05pm

It's extremely difficult to "fail" an IQ test. The psychologists giving the battery of tests aren't exactly retarded themselves. They don't just look at a single test. They go back over all of a defendant's school records for years. The state is allowed to test a defendant themselves with their own experts. Various hearings are held and the defense and prosecution look over all the tests and the background. It's really not possible to dupe everyone in the system by pretending to be retarded.

sparrowgt August 7, 2012
at 4:47pm

They have enuf mentality to do the crime...they should be executed.
Psychology says that if you want to stop a behavior then punish it; or if you wish to encourage a behavior then reward it.
Lets see....what do we want with this behavior???Hmmmm

Many of these"impaired" can quote you the law & consequences.
They laugh at those who"get away with it'.
Mostly are sad they were CAUGHT!!

jpttm August 7, 2012
at 4:12pm

Okay, let's play devil's advocate. On one side you have to ask does the convict understand what they've done. The other side is that this could set a president for the accused to intentionally fail an IQ test to use it as a defense.

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