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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments about whether Bobby James Moore should be executed here in Texas.
The case has significant implications for Texas’ standards for determining whether a person is mentally disabled, and if that person should be executed. That’s because the Lone Star State is an outlier in its practices — and not in an good way.
Rather than using contemporary medical standards to determine whether a defendant is intellectually disabled, the Texas relies on a bizarre standard, one that mixes clinical definitions from 1992 and seven nonclinical traits based on fiction. Yes, fiction. It’s known as the “Lennie Standard.” As in, Lennie, the character from John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” Not surprisingly, most people don’t meet the Lennie Standard. I shit you not. Moore cannot tell time nor use a calendar. He didn't pull the trigger. His buddy did. The trigger man got life Texas will kill him.
https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_offenders_on_dr.html
https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_info/moorebobby.jpg
The case has significant implications for Texas’ standards for determining whether a person is mentally disabled, and if that person should be executed. That’s because the Lone Star State is an outlier in its practices — and not in an good way.
Rather than using contemporary medical standards to determine whether a defendant is intellectually disabled, the Texas relies on a bizarre standard, one that mixes clinical definitions from 1992 and seven nonclinical traits based on fiction. Yes, fiction. It’s known as the “Lennie Standard.” As in, Lennie, the character from John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” Not surprisingly, most people don’t meet the Lennie Standard. I shit you not. Moore cannot tell time nor use a calendar. He didn't pull the trigger. His buddy did. The trigger man got life Texas will kill him.
https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_offenders_on_dr.html
https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_info/moorebobby.jpg
