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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the mental age of a death row inmate does not prevent the state from executing him.
An attorney for Thomas Clyde Bowling had argued that the inmate had the mental capacity of an 11-year-old when he killed two people in Lexington in 1990, citing testimony from psychologists.
The state high court in Frankfort noted the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year barring executions for killers who were not at least 18 years old at the time of the crime, but said the ruling did not specifically prohibit putting to death someone with a mental age below that.
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