Supreme Court nixes death sentence for ‘intellectually disabled’ Texas murderer

Published February 19, 2019 4:56pm ET



The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a man on death row in Texas is intellectually disabled and therefore cannot receive the death penalty.

The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of Bobby James Moore, who was convicted in 1980 for murdering a store clerk in Houston.

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