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Texas executes 'mentally impaired' convict

A convicted death-row inmate has been executed in Texas after the US Supreme Court rejected arguments that he was mentally impaired.

Marvin Wilson, 54, was pronounced dead on Tuesday evening after receiving a lethal injection, officials said.

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