The SupremeCourt has sided with a Texas death row inmate seeking to have his pastor be allowed to pray out loud and touch him during his execution.
death row inmate seeking to have his pastor be allowed to pray out loud and touch him during his execution.
The high court’s decision won’t keep John Henry Ramirez from being executed. But the justices in an 8-1 decision rejected Texas’ defense of its policy of allowing an inmate’s spiritual adviser to be present in the death chamber but without speaking or touching the inmate.
Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone justice to dissent, writing that Ramirez has engaged in repeated litigation tactics to delay his execution and that his current lawsuit "is but the latest iteration in an 18-year pattern of evasion." Executions in Texas, the nation’s busiest death penalty state, had been delayed while the court considered the case.
Ramirez is on death row for killing a Corpus Christi convenience store worker during a 2004 robbery. Ramirez stabbed the man, Pablo Castro, 29 times and robbed him of $1.25.Ramirez’s lawyers sued after Texas said it would not allow his minister to pray audibly and touch him as he is being given a lethal injection. Lower courts had sided with Texas, but the Supreme Court halted his Sept. 8 execution to hear his case.
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