DA on Killer’s Side Puts Texas Twist on Second High Court Review

It’s not every day that a district attorney agrees with a killer that he shouldn’t be executed. Especially not in Texas, which accounted for more than half the country’s executions this year.

But the curious case of Bobby James Moore is knocking at the U.S. Supreme Court’s door again. Moore already won an appeal there in 2017. But that was before Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh arrived, cementing a conservative majority free from Anthony Kennedy’s swing vote, which saved Moore from execution last year.

If the court doesn’t step in to save Moore again, it will be ...