The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to stop the execution of a North Texas man scheduled to die Tuesday evening for participating in the abduction and torture murder of a 19-year-old woman exactly 13 years ago.
The high court Tuesday rejected arguments from lawyers for 31-year-old Michael Wayne Hall that questions about his mental impairment needed to be examined. Hall's attorneys argued that his 67 IQ — in the upper range of mental impairment — should exempt him from execution under Supreme Court decisions.
Hall is set for lethal injection in Huntsville for the 1998 slaying of Amy Robinson, a mentally challenged woman abducted on her way to work at an Arlington supermarket, tortured and shot. Hall's partner in the murder, Robert Neville, was executed five years ago.
