Alabama cancels execution after court requires pastor

ATMORE, Ala. -- An Alabama inmate on Thursday won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state must allow his personal pastor in the death chamber.

“Alabama has not carried its burden of showing that the exclusion of all clergy members from the execution chamber is necessary to ensure prison security. So the State cannot now execute Smith without his pastor present, to ease what Smith calls the ‘transition between the worlds of the living and the dead.’” Kagan wrote. Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with three liberal justices to let the ruling stand.

Smith, 51, had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison for the 1991 murder of 22-year-old Sharma Ruth Johnson in Birmingham. In the past, Alabama routinely put a Christian prison chaplain, who was employed by the state, in the execution chamber to pray with an inmate if requested. The state stopped that practice after a Muslim inmate asked to have an imam present. The prison system, which did not have Muslim cleric on staff, said non-prison staff would not be allowed in the chamber.

Death Penalty: white people playing God. 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽

🇺🇲 Yup give the black man the death penalty for a bag of weed but can't convict trump. Thats america folks 💯

What a big smile for a murderer that ruined families lives ,,,,

STOP ALABAMA from killing him. It's clear in his photo that he's mentally challenged & the article confirms it. His IQ is too low to have understood what he did at the time. He has served 29 yrs. He got death bc he's black & he killed a COP'S daughter in the South. HelpHim

But the recently executed Muslim was not afforded the same privilege.

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How shit is America. Yeah you can kill this guy as long as a religious minister is there.

Here you go.....cover it up like you do things so well......who is being impeached...and why

The death penalty must be abolished.

Whatever next.

May God bless you and may He forgive you for all of your sins may you show mercy on your soul

Good, now the pastor/s should keep delaying it everyday 🤣🤣😘

Free all the black men that are innocent in this crooked system

why are we even still doing capital punishment, its so archaic and authoritarian. What business does the state have to decide if my life can be ended as a punishment determined by a judge? its just a waste of time and resources. fuck alabama.

It’s horrifying that we berate other countries for human rights abuses, and yet put people on death row in this country.

So one guy who was sick with COVID-19 which likely meant the lethal injection execution would make his death EXTREMELY PAINFUL was DENIED, and executed as planned. BUT OH WAIT. THIS GUY DOESN'T HAVE HIS MAGIC SKY GOD FRIEND ADVISOR. HOLD THAT SHIT UP!!! BREAK. BREAK. STOP!!

kuku27 Pastor must be down with Covid, what he keeps lying, this guy will be free

technicalities, just get it done if thats all the hold up is.

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