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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Alabama executes Muslim inmate who wanted imam present
2019-02-08
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) ‐ A Muslim inmate who filed a legal challenge because Alabama wouldn’t let his Islamic spiritual adviser be present in the execution chamber was put to death Thursday after the nation’s highest court cleared the way.

Dominique Ray, 42, was pronounced dead at 10:12 p.m. of a lethal injection at the state prison in Atmore.

Ray’s imam, Yusef Maisonet, watched the execution from an adjoining witness room, after visiting with Ray over the past two days. There was no Christian chaplain in the chamber, a concession the state agreed to make.

Strapped to a gurney in the death chamber, Ray was asked by the warden if he had any final words. The inmate said an Islamic statement of his faith in Arabic.

Ray was sentenced to death for the 1995 rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl. Tiffany Harville disappeared from her Selma home on July 15, 1995, and her decomposing body was found one month later in a cotton field.

It was Alabama’s first execution of the year.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  SteveS, that is EVIL!

On the other hand, I like how you think.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2019-02-08 21:28  

#10  An opportunity, to do the Imam by mistake

INT. EXECUTION CHAMBER - Day
Guard 1: Dude, you did the wrong guy
Guard 2: No way. You said the creepy, child molester-looking guy with the beard
Guard 1: Way. That's him over there
Guard 2: Aw, jeez. The paperwork...
Guard 1: Just shut up and drag the body out. I'll reload the machine
Posted by: SteveS   2019-02-08 17:21  

#9  Almost 24 years after the crime his sentence is finally carried out.
Posted by: Glenmore   2019-02-08 16:30  

#8  Whoops! Going to the link revealed that the Ay Pee article has all that, too. A reminder to me to read the article before posting.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-02-08 13:58  

#7  The Daily Mail has more on the crime, the confession of his partner in crime, who is serving a life sentence, and the fact that this request was only one of a series of attempts to derail the execution.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-02-08 13:57  

#6  The fact that he was found guilty of rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl should be the national headline. Or.

"Muslim rape-murderer demands last minute Moon Goddess worship".
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-02-08 12:42  

#5  its a start
Posted by: 746   2019-02-08 10:32  

#4  converted to Islam

evidence of his fatal mental flaw, ditto g(r)om.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-02-08 10:15  

#3  A search of Imam Yusef Maisonet‘s name reveals Facebook, YouTube and Twitter activity. He seems to be a Puerto Rican who served in the US Navy and converted to Islam.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-02-08 09:49  

#2  An opportunity, to do the Imam by mistake
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-02-08 07:38  

#1  But was the pancuronium bromide halal?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-08 02:32  

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