Supreme Court Of The United States Decision In Moore v. Texas

On March 28, 2017, the United States Supreme Court released this decision in the case of Moore v. Texas. In Moore v. Texas, the Supreme Court was asked to decide, among other things, whether the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment is violated by the execution of an inmate after an extended period of incarceration, especially when much of that time has been spent in solitary confinement.

Bobby James Moore was sentenced to death in 1980 and has spent more than 35 years living on death row. He has spent nearly 15 of those years alone in . . .