SCOTUS Sides With Death Row Inmate Who Wants Baptist Pastor to 'Lay Hands' On Him During Execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : He also remarked that such claims have evolved into "religious liberty" claims for those advisors to engage in practices such as audible prayer.
48% : "Even the condemned have a right to get right with God," said Eric Rassbach, vice president & senior counsel at Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, an amicus in the case.
45% : We look forward to prevailing in the forthcoming litigation about the issue of whether Mr. Ramirez's pastor may safely touch him during execution just as prison-employed chaplains have done in every execution over the past 37 years.
44% :The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) refused Ramirez's request on the grounds that as of April 2019, its policy was to disallow all visits into the execution chamber.
42% : Though the chief justice allowed that "audible prayer could present a more serious risk of interference during the delicate process of lethal injection than during the method of execution (hanging) that was used in most of the historical examples," the majority found that a categorical ban on audible prayer is not the least restrictive means of meeting the government's interests.
41% : Rather than follow legal anti-discrimination mandates, TDCJ opted to exclude all chaplains from the death chamber.

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