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Marvin Lee Wilson (January 5, 1958 – August 7, 2012) was executed by the State of Texas on August 7, 2012, despite a 2004 test finding his IQ was 61. Supreme Court rulings subsequent to his execution in 2014 (Hall v. Florida) and 2017 (Moore v. Texas) ruled that the Eighth Amendment protected people with this low of an IQ from being executed under the discretion some states, including Texas, were using at the time. Wilson had previously scored 75, 75, and 79, all above the threshold to be considered intellectually disabled, on three other tests administered by state authorities. Wilson had also scored 73 at a test given when he was thirteen. The 2004 test which found Wilson to be intellectually disabled was further discredited when prosecutors found that it had been administered by a PhD candidate, rather than a consulting clinical psychologist.