- Edward Busby Jr. was executed in Texas, becoming the 600th person put to death in the state since it resumed carrying out the death penalty in 1982.
- Busby was condemned for the 2004 suffocation death of Laura Lee Crane, a 77-year-old retired college professor who was abducted and left in her car's trunk.
- The execution proceeded after the Supreme Court lifted a stay that had been granted by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over claims of Busby's intellectual disability.
- Experts for both the defense and the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office had previously found Busby to be intellectually disabled, a condition the Supreme Court barred from execution in 2002.
- Despite earlier recommendations from the district attorney's office to reduce his sentence, the office later requested the execution date, stating Busby was not intellectually disabled under current law.
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Texas man who experts said was intellectually disabled is executed for retired professor’s killing
