Texas Carries Out 600th Execution Despite Intellectual Disability Concerns
On Thursday, Texas executed Edward Lee Busby Jr., marking the state’s 600th execution since capital punishment resumed in 1982. This action proceeded despite expert assertions of Busby’s intellectual disability, a condition typically exempting individuals from the death penalty, and was cited by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty as indicative of racial and geographic disparities within the state’s capital punishment system.
