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The Alabama Supreme Court determined that an individual with an intellectual disability could not be executed. The court highlighted that permanent cognitive challenges, trauma experienced during development, violence encountered in childhood, and impaired daily living skills were reasons to prevent the use of the death penalty.
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The Alabama Supreme Court determined that individuals with an intellectual disability cannot be executed. The court emphasized that a history of cognitive impairments, trauma during development, violence experienced in childhood, and a reduced ability to adapt to everyday life all contribute to a basis for not imposing the death penalty.
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The Alabama Supreme Court decided that individuals with an intellectual disability cannot be executed. The court highlighted that permanent cognitive problems, trauma experienced during development, violence in childhood, and difficulty with daily living skills all make it inappropriate to carry out the death penalty.
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The Alabama Supreme Court decided that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be put to death. The Court explained that problems like lifelong struggles with thinking, harm from childhood, violence experienced as a child, and trouble with daily life skills make it wrong to give someone the death penalty.