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Matthew Reeves, a disabled man who killed a taxi driver has been executed. The Alabama man was executed on Thursday for brutally murdering a taxi driver who gave him a ride more than 25 years ago. Reeves, the death Row inmate had claimed his ‘intellectual disability’ meant he did not understand forms asking him to choose either death by lethal injection or an alternative method using nitrogen hypoxia. Similarly, his lawyers had claimed he had a reading capacity of a first-grader and the language skills of a four-year-old. However, the Supreme Court rejected this plea on Thursday, after voting …