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 The Supreme Court said that Texas had violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment by using an outdated standard for mental disability.



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