Court Standards for Determining Intellectual Disability Drawn From Novella ‘Of Mice and Men’
NEW YORK –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Robert Ladd, an intellectually disabled person with an IQ of 67, was denied a stay of execution today by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Although in any other state he would be considered ineligible for the death penalty because of his intellectual disability, Ladd doesn’t meet the Texas courts’ standards to determine whether a person is…
