Supreme Court Finds Intellectually Disabled Texas Inmate Cannot Be Executed

The Associated Press, New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tue, 03/28/2017 - 8:26am

The justices, by a 5-3 vote, reversed a Texas appeals court ruling that held that inmate Bobby James Moore was not intellectually disabled.

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