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New bill aims to stop execution of intellectually disabled

by Travis Loller
| November 4, 2020 1:27 PM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The first bill to be prefiled for the upcoming legislative session in Tennessee seeks to give people with an intellectual disability who have been sentenced to death a chance to prove their disability and that they should not be executed.

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