TIL of Joe Arridy who was a 23-year-old man with an IQ score of 46 and the mind of a six-year-old who was wrongfully convicted and executed in 1939. He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die". He smiled while being taken to the gas chamber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy
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