The Execution of Arthur Lee Burton: A Controversial Case of Intellectual Disability and the Death Penalty
The Crime and Arrest Arthur Lee Burton, a 54-year-old man, was executed by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville for the 1997 murder of Nancy Adleman. Adleman, a 48-year-old mother of three, was brutally beaten and strangled with her own shoelace while jogging near her Houston home. Burton confessed to the crime…