Not exactly holding your hand, but close. When prisoners are executed, it is an accepted practice for Domineque Ray was executed without his imam with him.
the condemned person to be accompanied by his spiritual minister. However, in Alabama,
Mr. Ray was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and murder of a 15 year old girl. You might say where was her spiritual comfort. Indeed! However, two wrongs do not make a right and Mr. Ray may have repented and needed prayers for his sins before he met God.
"People deserve to be accompanied in death by someone who shares their faith. It is especially important that we respect this right for religious minorities," said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, and Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, in a Feb. 8 statement. They are the chairmen, respectively, of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty and the USCCB's Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development."
Please read the article in the Pilot.
Mr. Ray was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and murder of a 15 year old girl. You might say where was her spiritual comfort. Indeed! However, two wrongs do not make a right and Mr. Ray may have repented and needed prayers for his sins before he met God.
"People deserve to be accompanied in death by someone who shares their faith. It is especially important that we respect this right for religious minorities," said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, and Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, in a Feb. 8 statement. They are the chairmen, respectively, of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Religious Liberty and the USCCB's Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development."
Please read the article in the Pilot.
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