The Supreme Court is siding with a Texas death row inmate seeking to have his pastor be allowed to pray out loud and touch him during his execution.
, 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.Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a majority opinion that Texas"appears to have long allowed prison chaplains to pray with inmates in the execution chamber, deciding to prohibit such prayer only in the last several years.
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."
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