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03-29-2017, 01:14 PM
http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_GrbRquSscFTAydqucJ2aA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/606a29cad15b901e482e98587fd3ffcc72ee59cf.jpg (https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-supreme-court-overturns-death-sentence-texas-inmate-201751532.html)The US Supreme Court overturned Tuesday a death sentence for a Texas man, saying he was not properly sentenced because of his mental disability. The five-to-three Supreme Court decision offered a reprieve to Bobby Moore, a 57-year-old prisoner who fatally shot a clerk at a Houston grocery store during a botched holdup in 1980. The Supreme Court said that Texas had violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment by using an outdated standard for mental disability.



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