JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Latest on arguments in a Mississippi death penalty case (all times local):
1:02 p.m.
An attorney is asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to toss out the death sentence given to a man convicted of killing a family of four in 1990.
Attorney Alexander Kassoff argues that Anthony Carr has an intellectual disability and should not be put to death.
Jason Davis of the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office argues that Carr’s death sentence should be upheld because experts disagree about his intellectual abilities.
In a 2002 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court barred states from executing people who are mentally disabled. In 2014, the nation’s highest court prohibited states from relying only on intelligence test scores to determine whether an inmate is eligible for execution.
Mississippi justices heard more than an hour of arguments in the Carr case Tuesday. They did not say when they will rule.
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9:51 a.m.
The Mississippi Supreme Court is hearing arguments in an appeal from death row inmate Anthony Carr.
He is one of two people convicted in the 1990 slayings of a family in rural Quitman County.
The sparsely populated county had to raise taxes three consecutive years to pay for the defense of Carr and Robert Simon Jr. Both men remain on death row at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
Arguments in the Carr case are taking place Tuesday.
Carl and Bobbie Jo Parker, their 12-year-old son Gregory and 9-year-old daughter Charlotte had just returned from church when they were killed in their home the night of Feb. 2, 1990.
Court records show Carr was convicted of four counts of capital murder in a trial that was moved to Alcorn County.
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