U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Intellectual Disability Capital Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the limits of recent rulings involving executions and intellectual disability.

In rejecting the review of three cases on Thursday, the justices passed on the chance to consider whether those rulings apply retroactively on collateral review.

The underlying decisions arose in the case of former Texas death row inmate Bobby Moore. The justices ruled in his favor twice in the past few years, saying the state’s top criminal court didn’t adequately take into account evidence of his intellectual disability.

Since then, courts around the U.S. have reached mix results on who can benefit from ...