In the US state of Texas, executions face delays over religious rights claims
Houston, Texas, US AP Executions in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state face delays amid legal questions over Texas’ refusal to allow spiritual advisers to touch inmates and pray aloud as condemned individuals are being put to death. It’s unclear when Texas may carry out another execution after the US Supreme Court’s decision to hear religious freedom […]
Another Texas execution delayed on religious freedom claims
Houston, Texas, US AP Another Texas inmate has had his execution delayed over claims the state is violating his religious freedom by not letting his spiritual adviser lay hands on him at the time of his lethal injection. Ruben Gutierrez was set to be executed on 27th October for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old Brownsville woman […]
US Supreme Court halts Texas execution over clergy question
Houston, US AP The US Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state during the coronavirus pandemic. The justices blocked Ruben Gutierrez’s execution about […]