The Supreme Court building on June 6, 2016.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday morning announced that it will hear challenges to the death sentences of two people on Texas' death row, Bobby James Moore and Duane Buck.
Moore's case presents a question about how people can prove that they are intellectually disabled, which the justices have repeatedly said renders a person ineligible for the death penalty. The case also raises a question about whether it violates the Constitution to execute a person after having spent more than 35 years on death row.
Buck's case presents a question about what happens when a capital defendant's own trial counsel calls an expert witness at sentencing who testifies that the defendant's future dangerousness is increased because he is black — and how challenges to that trial counsel's decision should be addressed by the courts.
The cases will be heard in the Supreme Court's upcoming term, which begins in October.
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