NEW YORK –-(ENEWSPF)–January 30, 2015. Robert Ladd, an intellectually disabled person with an IQ of 67, was executed last night at 7:02 CT in Huntsville, Texas. His death violates the Supreme Court’s rulings that the Eighth Amendment prohibits executing the intellectually disabled as cruel and unusual punishment. In any other state Mr. Ladd would be considered ineligible for the death penalty because of his intellectual disability.
Brian Stull, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Capital…
