He had an IQ of only 71, reading skills of a 4th grader, an actual hole in his head, and the loss of 8% of his brain due to a sawmill accident long before he committed the crime. Doctors said the portion of his brain lost included 1/5 of the frontal lobe, the portion that maintains judgment and impulse control. That means he didn’t have the mental capacity to understand why he was being executed or even the crime he committed. But the state of Missouri executed 74-year-old Cecil Clayton anyway. Maybe because it was a sheriff’s deputy he killed?
When will our “civilized” country stop killing children who happen to have adult bodies?