Supreme Court Rejects Texas Standard For Mental Disability In Capital Cases
The state has been using an unconstitutional, obsolete medical standard for determining whether convicted murderers are exempt from the death penalty because of mental deficiency, justices ruled.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state of Texas has been using an unconstitutional and obsolete medical standard for determining whether those convicted of murder are exempt from the death penalty because of mental deficiency.
The 5-to-3 decision came in the case of Bobby James Moore, who killed a store clerk in in Houston in 1980 during a botched robbery.
There is no doubt about Moore's guilt or about the fact that he has limited mental abilities. Even the prosecution's
