“I want to say thank you to all the people who support me and pray for me,” Burton said when asked by the warden if he had a final statement, his voice repeatedly cracking with a sharp breath after saying several words.
Arthur Lee Burton, Texas man who claimed intellectual disability, executed for Nancy Adleman killing
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An expert for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted Burton, said in an Aug. 1 report that Burton’s writing and reading abilities “fall generally at or higher than the average U.S. citizen, which is inconsistent with” intellectual disability.
Texas man whose lawyers argue is intellectually disabled facing execution for 1997 killing of jogger
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