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Alabama wants to execute someone who was placed in special education as a child and who learns at a level well below his age. Multiple IQ scores falling within the margin of error for intellectual disability, combined with documented adaptive functioning deficits, clearly meet the medical standards that SCOTUS has repeatedly affirmed cannot be reduced to a single number.