(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case on Thursday regarding whether a criminal defendant can use multiple IQ scores to avoid the death penalty. 

The case, Hamm v. Smith, focused on Joseph Smith, a man convicted of first-degree murder in 1998. In his trial, he used multiple low IQ scored to prove that he was intellectually disabled, which prevented him from recieving the death penalty. 

 

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