Sentence examples for intellectually retarded from inspiring English sources
To dismiss the issue so glibly, you perhaps need to be, well, intellectually retarded.
In 1960, when she was four, the Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare determined that she was "not adoption material," because she was "socially, emotionally, and intellectually retarded".
"We Libyans are as if held in 1969 — even intellectually, we are retarded.
He continues to campaign in the case of Warren Hill, a Georgia death row inmate who has been declared intellectually disabled (or "mentally retarded" in US jurisprudence) by all the psychiatrists who have examined him, yet still faces execution despite a US supreme court ban on executing intellectually disabled people.
Georgia is the only state in the union that insists that death row inmates must prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that they are intellectually disabled – or "mentally retarded" in the designation still widely used in US judicial circles – if they are to avoid execution.
Hill has now been found to be intellectually disabled – or, as the courts still put it, "mentally retarded" – by all nine medical specialists who have evaluated him.
A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, has blocked the execution of Warren Hill, an intellectually disabled man who was set to be put to death by lethal injection despite a US supreme court ban on judicial killings of "mentally retarded" people.
