21.   The cortex is a thickly folded band of tissue that carries out higher mental capacities in humans and other mammals.

22.   The Texas jury was never informed about his diminished mental capacity.

23.   The toxic organism killed fish and afflicted a dozen people with a strange malady that caused dizziness, memory loss and greatly diminished mental capacity.

24.   There are no racial overtones to his conviction, no questions about his mental capacity or the quality of his legal representation.

25.   Twenty percent of them may never work, because of exemptions based on mental capacity or family situations.

26.   A dozen years ago, the court overturned his conviction and death sentence, issuing a similar opinion that cited inadequate jury instructions about his mental capacity.

27.   But the court threw out his conviction, saying the jury was not properly allowed to consider his mental capacity.

28.   He spent three years in solitary in Hong Kong and said he did not have the mental capacity for more.

29.   His lawyers said Gabrion had diminished mental capacity because of drug and alcohol abuse and a series of head injuries.

30.   His lawyers say the jurors who sentenced him to death did not have the chance to properly consider his mental capacity.