Texas poised to execute intellectually disabled prisoner within hours

Robert Ladd’s lethal injection to come days after Georgia’s execution of another intellectually disabled man; lawyer condemns policy based on fiction​Texas is hours away from executing the second intellectually disabled prisoner in in the US this week, in what lawyers say is a clear violation of the constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment.The convicted murderer Robert Ladd, 57, will be killed with a lethal injection at 6pm Central Time on Thursday barring last-minute