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Article: Supreme Court delays Texas killer's execution.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 1, 2002
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AUSTIN, Texas _ Just three hours before he was to be executed for a gruesome 1995 killing spree in Fort Worth, career criminal Curtis Moore won a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court when questions were raised concerning the condemned man's mental capacity.
"We think we can show that Curtis is mentally retarded, and all we want is an opportunity to prove it," said Austin lawyer Alex Calhoun, who is representing Moore through the final appeals process.
Moore, 34, was scheduled to die for his role in a drug ripoff scheme that ended with three dead and a fourth victim shot and severely burned. Killed were Henry Truevillian Jr., 20; Roderick Moore, 24, who ...