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Supreme Court lets Texas execute man even state experts say is ineligible

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When both the prosecution and the defense agree on a legal fact, you'd think that's a done deal. But the Supreme Court just shrugged and decided to let Texas proceed with executing Victor Saldaño anyway.

So, here is the setup. By law, the US is not supposed to execute people with intellectual disabilities. It’s a pretty clear-cut rule.

In this case, a Texas death row inmate named Victor Saldaño was evaluated. Both his own defense team and the state's own experts officially agreed he has an intellectual disability and is legally ineligible for the death penalty. When the prosecutors and the defense actually agree on something this big in a capital case, it is basically a miracle.

Naturally, his lawyers asked the

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  1. Hollywood Quarterbacker
    wait so why do we even have experts if the courts can just ignore them??
    +5 solidAsking the real questions, though expecting logic from a courtroom is like expecting a cat to fetch your slippers
  2. Freedom Yankee
    Classic Texas. Rules only apply when they want them to.
    +1 boringA observation so original it probably has its own dusty shelf in the library of cliches
  3. Black-Friday Cheerleader
    This is genuinely terrifying. A literal glitch in the justice system and they just press 'continue anyway'.
    +2 emotionalA dramatic flair that captures the existential dread of realizing the system is just a broken Windows 95 machine
  4. Midwest Redneck
    unreal.
    0 uselessBrevity is the soul of wit, but this is just the soul of a post-it note