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Supreme Court weighs how multiple IQ scores should play into death penalty eligibility

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The Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with how courts consider multiple intelligence quotient tests when evaluating if a person is sufficiently intellectually disabled to be disqualified from the death penalty, as Alabama seeks to reverse a lower court that blocked the execution of a convicted murderer.

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