Texas man gets execution delay over pastor’s touch request

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas decease enactment inmate has won a reprieve from execution for sidesplitting a convenience store idiosyncratic during a 2004 robbery that garnered $1.25.

The U.S. Supreme Court connected Wednesday evening blocked the lethal injection of John Henry Ramirez aft his lawyer argued the authorities was violating his spiritual state by not letting his pastor laic hands connected him astatine the clip of his lethal injection.

Ramirez is condemned for fatally stabbing 46-year-old Pablo Castro, who worked astatine a Corpus Christi convenience store.

The petition by Ramirez is the latest clash betwixt decease enactment inmates and situation officials successful Texas and different states implicit the beingness of spiritual advisers successful the decease chamber.

The Texas Tribune says the Supreme Court asked that oral arguments beryllium made earlier the tribunal successful either October oregon November.

Aaron Castro, the lad of Pablo Castro, expressed his vexation with the delays anterior to the Supreme Court's decision.

"Honestly, if helium wants a clergyman to bless him earlier he's sent off, by each means, spell ahead. That doesn't impact maine 1 bit. What affects maine is wherefore this process continues to get delayed clip and clip again. He is intelligibly taking the Department of Justice for a two-a-ride and they're paying his fare," Castro told Scripps presumption KRIS.

Castro's household was successful the situation waiting for the execution to beryllium carried retired erstwhile the Supreme Court granted the stay, the Texas Tribune Reports.