Supreme Court hears contentious death penalty case

Published November 29, 2016 7:28pm ET



Contentious oral arguments at the Supreme Court began Tuesday in Moore v. Texas, a death penalty case that gives the high court a chance to deliver a new judgment on how states decide when a person’s mental capacity prevents them from receiving a death sentence.

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