How to Use intellectually disabled in a Sentence

intellectually disabled

adjective
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  • The high court has prohibited the death penalty for the intellectually disabled.
    — CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In the sentencing phase, grieving family members told the jury about the lives that Mr. Bowers took – a 97-year-old woman and intellectually disabled brothers among them – and the unrelenting pain of their loss.
    — Peter Smith, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The high court has prohibited the death penalty for the intellectually disabled, but not for people with serious mental illness.
    — CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The Supreme Court has prohibited the death penalty for the intellectually disabled, but not for people with serious mental illness.
    — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The study commission identified at least 25 women whom Vanier abused, none of them intellectually disabled.
    — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In the sentencing phase, grieving family members told the jury about the lives that Bowers took — elderly people and intellectually disabled brothers among them — and the unrelenting pain of their loss.
    — Peter Smith and Michael Rubinkam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
  • That same survey found that most participants in programs for intellectually disabled people are men.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
  • In prior appeals, Green's attorneys had claimed he was intellectually disabled and has had a lifelong history of psychiatric disorders.
    — CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Whenever the courts decided that certain categories of people couldn’t be executed — such as those who were too young, too intellectually disabled or too mentally ill — they were often given life sentences instead and taken off death row.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In prior appeals, Green's attorneys had claimed he was intellectually disabled and had a lifelong history of psychiatric disorders.
    — Juan A. Lozano and Michael Graczyk, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Ability Connection works primarily with adults who have a range of needs, from those who are intellectually disabled but can live fairly independently to people who get nutrition through feeding tubes and require complete care.
    — Holly Haber, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
  • Per the Supreme Court, a person must be competent in order to be executed, and while the death penalty is prohibited for the intellectually disabled, those with serious mental illness have not been automatically granted the same exemption.
    — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The two older kids are intellectually disabled because of fetal alcohol syndrome and will never live independently.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • Martin Lijtmaer, the attorney for the defendant who pleaded guilty Thursday, argued his client was intellectually disabled, sparking a years-long series of examinations and hearings over his competency to stand trial.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Now, my adorable, sweet intellectually disabled child is turning into an intellectually disabled adult whom society simply doesn’t value.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Singapore has now hanged 15 people – including foreigners and an intellectually disabled man – since resuming executions for drug convictions last year, in what activists say is an accelerated pace after ending a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 28 July 2023
  • Last year, the hanging of 34-year-old Malaysian Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam sparked international outcry following psychologists’ assessment he was intellectually disabled.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 28 July 2023

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