Commentary: Religion in the death chamber
by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times
Apr 01, 2019
2 minutes
Just a few weeks after horribly bungling a 1st Amendment issue raised by a death penalty case out of Alabama, the Supreme Court made the right call Thursday night in an almost identical case out of Texas.
At issue in both cases were state laws providing for the presence of a religious figure in the death chamber, ostensibly to comfort the condemned (and possibly
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