Thomas Bandy
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In a recent article on The Washington Post, the Supreme Court is said to be gauging the death penalty in cases of a person who is intellectually disabled. A specific case, Moore v. Texas, has a particular inmate challenging the death penalty system named Bobby Moore. He, who is guilty of killing a man in an armed robbery in 1980, is challenging exactly how they choose who is eligible for the death penalty based on intellectual disability. This case has taken many turns since 1980, enough turns to make it to a Supreme Court topic of interest. The Supreme Court seemed to agree with Moore’s case, as far as intellectual disability goes. After all, in 2002, The Court said that executing people in situations of them being mentally
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In a recent article on The Washington Post, the Supreme Court is said to be gauging the death penalty in cases of a person who is intellectually disabled. A specific case, Moore v. Texas, has a particular inmate challenging the death penalty system named Bobby Moore. He, who is guilty of killing a man in an armed robbery in 1980, is challenging exactly how they choose who is eligible for the death penalty based on intellectual disability. This case has taken many turns since 1980, enough turns to make it to a Supreme Court topic of interest. The Supreme Court seemed to agree with Moore’s case, as far as intellectual disability goes. After all, in 2002, The Court said that executing people in situations of them being mentally