Justice Sotomayor Dissents as Conservative Majority Denies Death Row Inmate a Chance to Prove His

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Intellectual Disability

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday declined to hear a case brought by a death row inmate believed to be intellectually disabled by all parties to the litigation. The decision elicited a response from Justice Sonia Sotomayor and her two left-of-center colleagues.

Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. was already in prison for kidnapping and carjacking when he took part in the murder of another federal inmate along with co-defendant Charles Michael Hall.

“Hall was a decade older than Coonce, with an IQ about 30 points higher,” the dissent notes. “It was Hall who bound, gagged, and blindfolded [Victor] Castro [Rodriguez]. Hall consistently asserted that he had killed Castro by standing on his neck and suffocating him. Coonce, however, immediately claimed responsibility for the killing.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/justice-sotomayor-dissents-as-conservative-majority-against-the-governments-wishes-denies-death-row-inmate-a-chance-to-prove-his-intellectual-disability/ar-AAQc9WV

[Ron Obvious]

1. What, so he was too stupid to know that murder is wrong?

Sorry, I'm against the death penalty in all cases, but these sorts of exemptions are non-starters with me.

[spanone]

2. Six Catholics...'thou shalt not kill'. whatever.

[jcmaine72]

3. His IQ was determined to be 71, 30 points lower than that of his accomplice....

...and 30 points higher than the average Trump supporter.

If he really wanted to get away with murder on account of being intellectually disabled he should've joined the Republican party instead.