Supreme Court Blocks Texas From Executing Mentally Disabled Man
U.S. Supreme Court has ended a long legal fight by ruling that a Texas death row inmate is intellectually disabled and thus may not be executed. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Finding that a Texas court hadn’t followed its instructions, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that a Texas man who killed a store clerk during a botched robbery attempt “is a person with intellectual disability” and therefore cannot be put to death.
This is the second time the Supreme Court has weighed in on the case, which stems from a 1980 robbery in which Bobby J. Moore shot and killed a store clerk. The issue before the court has been whether Moore lacked the intellectual capacity to be put to death for his crime. Tiếp tục đọc “US Supreme Court blocks State of Texas from executing mentally disabled man”
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