when dominique ray found out this would be the circumstances of his death, his lawyer filed a legal challenges lawyer argued that by not allowing the imam in the execution chamber and only allowing a christian chaplain, alabama's execution procedure treated inmates differently according to their faith. it favored christian inmates by allowing them to have their faith leader with them but nobody else of any other faith. the federal appeals court agreed, at least they staid that execution so they could consider it. that happened on wednesday eyes this week, two days ago. lawyers for the state of alabama filed an emergency petition asking the u.s. supreme court to step in, specifically to let the execution move forward, and last night in a 5-4 decision they did that. the justices on the u.s. supreme court voted to let that execution go forward as planned. justice elena kagan wrote a blistering very short three-page dissent. quoting from that, she says, quote, this court -- excuse me. quote, today, this court reverses that decision and permits mr. ray's execution to go forward. given the gravity

and dominique ray had one request. he asked to have his spiritual advisor by his side instead of the chaplain. he wanted to honor his muslim faith as he died. to make sure that the very last words he uttered on earth were a testimony to his faith. the prison warden said no to that. alabama's prison policy is that yes, you can have a member of the clergy there with you when you die when prison staff kill you, but by member of the gl clergy, they only mean a christian chaplain because the only member of the clergy they allow is the christian chaplain employed by the prison and they argue that this is for security reasons. when dominique found out this would be the circumstances of his death, his lawyer filed a legal challenge. ray and his lawyer said by not allowing the muslim advisor, the prosecutor treated inmates differently according to their faith. it favored christian inmates by allowing their faith leader by nobody else of any other faith. the federal appeals court agreed, or at least they stayed that execution so