If Obama had a son - he might have looked like Domineque Ray... ___ Alabama death row inmate Domineque Ray died by lethal injection Thursday evening. Prison officials recorded his time of death as 10:12 p.m. Ray was executed after an 11th-hour ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a stay of execution pending a religious rights claim. Ray, a Muslim, had argued Alabama's practice of including a Christian prison chaplain in the execution chamber was in violation of the First Amendment. Ray sought to have his imam present in the death chamber at the time of his death. Imam Yusef Maisonet, Ray's spiritual adviser, witnessed Ray's execution from an adjoining chamber, which held media and prison officials. Two lawyers accompanied Maisonet. When the curtain opened at 9:44 p.m., Ray lifted his head from the gurney, looking into the witness room. With his right hand in a fist, he extended a pointer finger. Maisonet appeared to mirror the gesture and murmured that it was an acknowledgement of the singular God of the Islamic faith. When asked if he had any final words, Ray gave a brief faith declaration in Arabic. Domineque Hakim Marcelle Ray, an Alabama death row inmate, is challenging the state on religious grounds after prison officials denied his Muslim spiritual advisor access to the execution chamber. (Photo: ADOC) At 9:48, Ray made a fist with his left hand, raising his head slightly to look at his arm. His left arm shook briefly, before his eyes closed a minute later. When the curtains to the witness chamber were drawn at 10:05 p.m., Ray's right pointer finger remained extended. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals had previously stayed the execution, writing that there was a possibility Alabama had "run afoul" of the religious freedom clause of the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to vacate the stay "because Ray waited until Jan. 28, 2019, to seek relief." Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor dissented to the ruling. "Here, Ray has put forward a powerful claim that his religious rights will be violated at the moment the State puts him to death," Kagan wrote in her dissent. "The Eleventh Circuit wanted to hear that claim in full. Instead, this Court short-circuits that ordinary process — and itself rejects the claim with little briefing and no argument — just so the State can meet its preferred execution date." Ray was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Tiffany Harville of Selma. Months before his death penalty trial, he was sentenced to life for a 1994 slaying of two teen brothers. Ray was implicated in the crime after another man, Marcus Owden, confessed to his role in Harville's kidnapping. Owden testified in a 1999 trial that Ray cut Harville's throat. Owden is serving a life sentence without parole. The Supreme Court denied a second stay appeal on Thursday night, in which attorneys said Ray's original defense team wasn't informed that Owden suffered from schizophrenia and potential delusions at the time of his trial. https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.co...mineque-ray-for-1995-selma-murder/2809226002/
That's one guy who won't get to vote even if the dems are elected and get to allow serial murderers to vote because- that's who we are as a country according to Bernie. That could become another of the three hundred reasons why you have to delay an execution. You know, Achmed is scheduled to be executed but he has the right to vote in the 2020 election so you have to hold off until after that. We have seen crazier shiite. Such as the prisoner is allergic to the chemicals in the lethal injection so we have to find another type of drug. You can usually get another three or four years out of that. Then the prisoner converts to Judaism and the drugs aren't kosher.
How about someone who either self-identifys or is diagnosted as having a multiple personality disorder? Would he(They) be entitled to several votes?
He murdered and raped, I would have sent a minyon of rabbis in there for his final moments so that would be the last thing he sees haha.
Yeah, sorry, you rape and kill, don't care about mitigating circumstances much less religion. You were on drugs, mentally ill, had a bad childhood, doesn't matter, unfortunate for you but you still got to die.
Tht's right , no one supports rape and murder , you do the crime you do the time and in this case , you do the dying. No good people on both sides bullshit.
Hopefully, this becomes a precedent for future rulings on similar cases in the future! Under Sharia Law, his sentence would have been death by decapitation or having his head chopped off! Nobody would have batted an eyelash if it happened! Saudi Arabia normally, executes criminals the very same way in their plazas for people to watch!