Texas inmate 始める，決める to die Thursday for 1996 殺すing
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) ― Robert Ladd was 仮釈放（する）d after serving about a third of his 40-year 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決 for the 致命的な stabbing of a Dallas woman whose 団体／死体 was 始める，決める 燃えて in a 解雇する／砲火／射撃 that killed her two children.
Four years later, a mentally impaired woman in East Texas was strangled and beaten with a 大打撃を与える. Her 武器 and 脚s were bound, bedding was placed between her 脚s, and ― like the Dallas woman more than a １０年間 earlier in 1980 ― she was 始める，決める on 解雇する／砲火／射撃 in her apartment.
Ladd is scheduled to be 遂行する／発効させるd Thursday for the 1996 殺人，大当り of 38-year-old Vicki Ann 獲得する, whose 燃やすd 団体／死体 was 設立する in her Tyler apartment. His 弁護士／代理人／検事s 主張する Ladd is mentally impaired, and on Wednesday asked the U.S. 最高裁判所 to step in.
This undated handout photo 供給するd by the Texas Department of 犯罪の 司法（官） shows Robert Ladd. Ladd, scheduled to die Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, （機の）カム within nine hours of 死刑執行 in 2003 for the 殺すing of a 38-year-old Vickie Ann 獲得する, when a 連邦の 控訴，上告s 法廷，裁判所 停止（させる）d his 罰. Lawyers then said they 設立する juvenile 記録，記録的な／記録するs 示唆するing he was mentally impaired, a finding that could make him ineligible for the 死刑. (A P Photo/Texas Department of 犯罪の 司法（官）)
The high 法廷，裁判所 hadn't 支配するd on the request, but a 連邦の 控訴，上告s 法廷，裁判所 late Wednesday 拒絶するd another 控訴，上告 challenging the potency of the 麻薬 Texas uses for 死刑執行s, 説 the best course would be for the 最高裁判所 to 支配する on the 事柄. If the high 法廷，裁判所 辞退するs both 控訴，上告s, Ladd will be the second inmate this year to be 遂行する／発効させるd in nation's most active 死刑 明言する／公表する.
Ladd （機の）カム within hours of 死刑執行 in 2003, before a 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 agreed to hear 証拠 about juvenile 記録，記録的な／記録するs that 示唆するd he was mentally impaired. Those arguments have since been turned 負かす／撃墜する by the 法廷，裁判所s, 含むing by the U.S. 最高裁判所 last year, but his 弁護士／代理人／検事s aren't 支援 away from the argument.
They 特記する／引用する a psychiatrist's 決意 that Ladd, then a 13-year-old in 保護／拘留 of the Texas 青年 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限, had an IQ of only 67. 法廷，裁判所s have embraced 科学の 熟考する／考慮するs that consider an IQ of 70 a threshold for impairment, and the 最高裁判所 has 閉めだした 死刑執行 of mentally impaired people.
His 弁護士／代理人／検事s also say Ladd has long had difficulties with social 技術s and 機能（する）／行事ing on his own.
"The Texas 法廷，裁判所s 主張する on 厳しく misjudging his 知識人 capacity, relying on 基準s for 計器ing 知能... that have nothing to do with science or 薬／医学," said Ladd's lead 弁護士／代理人／検事 on the 控訴，上告, Brian Stull, a 上級の staff lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union 資本／首都 罰 事業／計画（する）.
The Texas 司法長官's Office argued to the 司法（官）s that the 罰 should go 今後.
Assistant 司法長官 Kelli Weaver told the 法廷，裁判所 that his （人命などを）奪う，主張する that he's mentally impaired "has been 繰り返して 拒絶するd and he argues neither a new factual basis nor a new 合法的な basis on which the judgments of the 明言する／公表する and 連邦の 法廷，裁判所s should be questioned."
Ladd also is part of a 訴訟 that questions the "質 and viability" of Texas' 供給（する） of its 死刑執行 麻薬, pentobarbital. The 5th U.S. 回路・連盟 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告s 拒絶するd the 控訴's arguments, which the Texas 司法長官's Office called "nothing more than 階級 憶測." Ladd's lawyers said they would take the 控訴 to the 最高裁判所, which the 5th 回路・連盟 said in its 判決，裁定 was the best 発生地 to decide the 問題／発行する.
Ladd was an 知識 of 獲得する, whose 世帯 items showed up at a Tyler pawn shop on Sept. 25, 1996, the same day firefighters discovered her 団体／死体 in her Tyler apartment.
によれば 裁判，公判 証言, Ladd 交流d 盗品 for $100 価値（がある） of 割れ目 コカイン, then returned with other items from 獲得する's apartment to 交換（する） for more 麻薬s. His 指紋 was 設立する on a microwave oven and his palm print was on a kitchen 閣僚.
Ladd 定評のある in a 2003 interview with The Associated 圧力（をかける） that he was in 獲得する's apartment and 伴う／関わるd in the 窃盗s, but he 否定するd 殺人，大当り her.
"It shouldn't have happened," he said. "I can't come up with a 推論する／理由 why it did."
