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Supreme Court orders more review of Alabama’s request to execute inmate courts said is intellectually disabled
By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the case of a death row inmate in Alabama whom lower courts found has an intellectual disability. The Supreme Court could still decide to hear the underlying questions raised by the appeal in the future. Joseph Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for a brutal murder in 1997. His case turns on how lower courts determine whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and, therefore, ineligible for the death penalty. The lower court’s ruling in Smith’s case, the Supreme Court wrote in a brief unsigned opinion on Monday, “is unclear on this point and this court’s ultima

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