[BBC] A Missouri man has been executed for murder despite pleas for clemency by advocates who said he had an intellectual disability.He's not being put down because he's stupid.
Ernest Johnson received a lethal injection on Tuesday after the US Supreme Court refused to consider a stay of execution earlier in the day.
The 61-year-old's pleas for leniency had received support from Pope Francis and two members of Congress.
Johnson killed three convenience store workers in a 1994 robbery.
Y'see, we got a right to a speedy trial. Sez so right in the Constitution. It only took 27 years to dispose of Ernie.
Attorneys for Johnson argued he was ineligible for the death penalty because multiple IQ tests have shown he has the mental capacity of a child and still reads at a third-grade level.
A brutal child, but still a child.
Johnson, a black man, was born with foetal alcohol syndrome after his mother drank heavily during her pregnancy.
Y'see, it's all Mom's fault.