What was Cory Johnson's IQ? Execution of serial killer labeled 'unconstitutional' over intellectual disability
Copy to Clipboard Corey Johnson (US Penitentiary, Getty Images) Federal inmate Cory Johnson was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, January 14, night despite calls for the execution to be called off. Johnson, 52, had been arrested and convicted for the murders of seven people in Richmond, Virginia. However, activists and defense lawyers claimed that his IQ of 77 as ascertained at the time of his trial was wrong and that it was much lower. Johnson was a member of the Newtowne crack cocaine gang, was put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, in Indiana. The current ad...