US inmate executed amid Imam row (BBC)

The US state of Alabama has executed a Muslim inmate after the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal for a imam to be present with him at death.

Convicted murderer Dominique Ray was killed by lethal injection on Thursday as scheduled.

Ray’s lawyers had argued that the state favoured Christians because a chaplain was allowed to be in the room with inmates.

Imam Yusef Maisonet instead watched from an adjacent room, reports said. Read more

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