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Looking at #HammvSmith, the wild #SupremeCourt case in which #Alabama is desperate to give the #DeathPenalty to someone who their own #courts found #IntellectuallyDisabled, despite it violating the #8thAmendment of the #constitution according to many past rulings. Alabama argues that his #IQtest scores range between 72 and 78, above the limit of 70. Defense counters that experts agree that #IQ is a flawed measure, that he has issues that aren't going to show on IQ tests, and that 72 is so low that the margin of error would reach below 70.

Meanwhile, the courts found multiple times that he was not competent for #execution, and let's be really honest here, everyone, even the #prosecutors, think he is #MentallyDisabled. This feels to me like #DoubleJeopardy and nitpicking: the courts already said he didn't meet the standard of #competence, and the #prosecutor is basically asking the supreme #court to have lower courts ignore facts whenever a state wants to kill people.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/court-appears-divided-on-whether-lower-courts-properly-found-death-row-inmate-to-be-intellectually-disabled/

Court appears divided on whether lower courts properly found death row inmate to be intellectually disabled

The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question before the […]

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Claudia Sperlich 2d ago

IQ https://katholischlogisch.blog/2025/12/13/iq/ #IQ, #Klugheit, #MeineGedichte, #Sonett, #Verstand, #Zweifel

IQ

Ich mache Tests, die meine Klugheit wägen.Sie sagen leider meistens, dass die meisten Gehirne weit mehr als das meine leisten.Und wenn sie nun, o Gott, ganz richtig lägen?Nun schreibe ich Sonette…

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🌈 breaking ranks.4d ago

The article above is very insightful + well written, expl. "hereditary genetics", esp. for all nerdos like me who [irritatingly!] are fascinated with the classical IQ concept.

"No, you’re not dreaming—T. Bouchard just pulled a Fermat right before your eyes! “I have a marvelous proof but the margin is too narrow” [.]. In experimental science, [such an argument] is beyond egregious, [.] readers can’t even try to reconstruct the missing data [.]."

@RalphBassfeld

#IQ #adoptionStudies #genetics

aho-mastodon.bsky.social 5d ago

According to #trumpery #trump you need #IQ 185 to start a lawnmower, good to know that most kids are far smarter than the #corrupt #orange that tries to run #USA Thanks #Governor #GavinNewsom for make the meme for us: x.com/GovPressOffi...

Strephil 5d ago

Сейчас я узнал, что у подсудимых Нюрнбергского процесса IQ был повыше среднего,
у Геринга 138, у Риббентропа 129, у Шахта так вообще 143, у Кальтенбруннера 113 хотя бы. #история #нацизм #iq

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