SCOTUS Bars Alabama From Executing Inmate Without Pastor

The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday refused to allow Alabama to execute an Alabama inmate if he is not allowed to have a pastor with him in the execution chamber.

The court refused to lift an injunction barring the execution of Willie B. Smith III, who was convicted in the 1991 kidnapping, robbery, and murder of Sharma Ruth Johnson, who was abducted at gunpoint from an ATM… (abajournal.com)