Even Warren Hill, a man with an IQ of 70 who is diagnosed as mentally retarded by every doctor who has examined him, found it impossible to meet this standard of proof".
Hill's attorney, Brian Kammer, issued a statement after the stay: "All the doctors who have examined Mr Hill are unanimous in their diagnosis of mental retardation, so there is no question that his execution would have been in violation of the US supreme court's 2002 ruling in Atkins v Virginia.
Crucially, Snow examined that pump water expecting to see organic contamination.
At around 10am last Wednesday, Abdouramane Koungoulba, the duty paediatrician at the Fousseyni Dao hospital in Kayes, western Mali, examined a young patient who had been brought in by a relative.
Freedland's winning article examined the effects of the Bush presidency and appeared in the New York Review of Books.
Her PhD examined the social and legal perceptions of children who kill, from the 18th century to the present, and included reaction to the killing in 1993 of the Liverpool toddler James Bulger by two 10-year-olds.
Asylum seekers are examined while exhausted, dehydrated and filthy, their clothing "soiled with urine and faeces" because there are no toilets on the boats.
The thinking behind proposed new admissibility criteria - the second option - is that cases would not come before the court if they had already been examined by a national court applying the convention.
A prisoner in Georgia who has been diagnosed as intellectually disabled by all medical experts who have examined him will be put to death on Monday unless the US supreme court acts to enforce its own constitutional ban on executing "mentally retarded" individuals.
He was examined by Barcelona's medical staff after the final whistle and did not appear to be injured, giving the thumbs-up as he walked off the pitch.
Operation Credo examined the Eddie Obeid-linked Australian Water Holdings, while Operation Spicer's investigations uncovered the depths of the donations scandal which rocked the NSW Liberal party.
