Ramirez was convicted in the 2004 fatal stabbing of a father of nine. His Supreme Court win allowed a pastor to lay hands on him during his lethal injection.
while on death row, had requested that Moore “feel my heart and feel when I transition,” he told The Washington Post in 2021.
Ramirez was scheduled to be executed on Sept. 8, 2021, and requested that Moore be there to pray and lay his hands on him. However, Texas officials said Moore could be present during the execution but could not touch the inmate.Ramirez’s case for religious rights ultimately made its way to the Supreme Court, and as he waited in a holding room the night of his planned 2021 execution, the justices stopped the procedure.
“The suffering of Castro’s family has been needlessly exacerbated by nearly decades of undue delays and manipulative, whipsaw litigation tactics,” they wrote. It is “truly the convergence of all these arbitrary and discriminatory factors in imposing death penalties,” Dunham added. “His case is emblematic because, statistically, all the odds were stacked against him.”
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