Will Mexican Immigrant's Case End Texas' Exectutions of the Mentally Disabled?

The Texas Observer | January 21, 2010
A lack of oxygen had damaged his brain during birth, so an hour into his life, and 20 years before he would be sentenced to die in Texas, Daniel Plata was already being tested for mental retardation.

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