Prisons in a US state will no longer allow clergy in the death chamber after the US Supreme Court blocked the scheduled execution of a man who argued his religious freedom would be violated if his Buddhist spiritual adviser could not accompany him. Effective immediately, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will only permit prison... Read More
bans, Brett Kavanaugh, Buddhist, chamber, chaplains, Christian, clergy, clerics, cruel, David Dow, death, death chamber, death penalty, Death Penalty Information Centre, denominations, discriminate, discrimination, escaped, execution, execution chamber, fatally, fatally shot, freedom, freedom of religion, gang, inmate, Jeremy Desel, judicial, Kristin Houle, lawyer, Muslim, Patrick Murphy, police officer, policy, policy change, prison chaplains, prisoners, Prisons, protocol, religion, religious, religious denominations, religious freedom, robberies, Robert Dunham, ruling, shot, spiritual adviser, states, Supreme Court, Texas, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Seven, unusual, US, US Supreme Court, violated
