Supreme Court Sees 2 Similar Death Penalty Questions Very Differently

The Supreme Court ruled in what seem to be contradictory ways in two cases about access to spiritual advisers during executions.

An Alabama man was denied the right to have his Muslim spiritual adviser in the death chamber. But a Texas prisoner's execution was delayed because he was denied his Buddhist minister.

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