Posted on 06/21/2015 4:31:54 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Pennsylvania’s high court says a man convicted of murdering a Philadelphia police officer can’t be executed because he has an IQ of 74.
The state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Edward Bracey’s below-average intellectual functioning made him ineligible for the death penalty.
Bracey is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole in the 1991 murder of 21-year-old officer Daniel Boyle.
Boyle’s sister tells the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota that the ruling was excruciating, unfair and not justice.
Kathleen Wrigley is the wife of North Dakota Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley.
The Pennsylvania court voted 4-1 to uphold Judge M. Teresa Sarmina’s January 2014 ruling sparing the 52-year-old Bracey.
The U.S. Supreme Court has barred execution of anyone deemed mentally disabled by a state.
(Excerpt) Read more at philadelphia.cbslocal.com ...
Remember, IQ is a QUOTIENT... a division problem, a fraction... and the denominator (the bottom number in the fraction) changes every day (it is your physical age). The numerator (the top number) is your "mental age" as found by these tests... and the accuracy is greatly affected by many factors (have you seen these questions before, exactly what should a 52 year old know, etc)... and this court is saying that we know this figure to a high degree of certainty, within less than one percent, even with all of those vague terms involved. Utter stupidity.
ASIA
1 Hong Kong 107
2 South Korea 106
3 Japan 105
4 Taiwan 104
5 Singapore 103
12 China 100
19 Mongolia 98
39 Malaysia 92
40 Thailand 91
44 Indonesia 89
52 Philippines 86
5.56mm
Stupid is the new crazy...
Using this logic then anyone with a “too stupid” IQ should be Institutionalized to protect the rest of us?
The GCT score is completely different from an IQ score. They don’t come close to matching. The Average GCT score for Marine Corps recruits is 75.
...too dumb to VOTE (and watch THEIR heads explode); then watch ‘em spin on a dime.
How do they know IQ? Really...how? Just curious.
To give commencement speeches.
What time frame are you referencing. In 1968, the low in our platoon was 68, then a 75 and an 83. Quite a few over 100-110. One had a GCT of 156.
The same approximate correlation to IQ held true in 1972 while I was at OCS/TBS.
"Qualifications & Training. To become a CI/ HUMINT Marine, you must meet the following criteria:
• Male Corporal, Sergeant or Staff Sergeant with less than 1 year time in grade
• At least 21 years old
• U.S. Citizen
• GCT of 110 or above (with waivers for well qualified Marines)
• Good performance record
• Eligible for a Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance
• Take the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) test
• Re-enlist or extend to have 3 years obligated service upon completion of the 16-week CI/ HUMINT MOS School
• Be willing to submit to a Counterintelligence Scope Polygraph examination"
I looked quickly at the description of the crime. It looks like the perp did not wait around after the crime, but went into hiding. That indicates he understood what he had done was wrong. He is not too stupid, he realized his crime.
She better get over that ‘eye for an eye’ thing.
Forgiving is for you, not for the one that wronged you.
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