From: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...5W4R2b4KtdQHg1mdXiZpxf7wqd02CVeJ7yeL7BLn-wHGk At issue was Alabama’s plan to execute a man, Domineque Ray, for the robbery, rape, and murder of a 15-year-old girl, Tiffany Harville, in 1995. His guilt was not in doubt. She wasn’t even his first victim. Rather, what mattered in this case was the method in which the state planned to kill him. Alabama said it would permit a Christian minister – an employee of the state prison system – to be in the execution chamber with Ray at the time of his death, but Ray was a Muslim and requested an imam. Officials balked and a court fight ensued. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the plaintiff, citing the First Amendment, and issued a stay. If Christian inmates can have a Christian minister with them during their executions, a unanimous appellate court panel concluded, then inmates of minority faiths deserve equal treatment. If religion is intermingled with law, shouldn't the law be followed?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say I believe it has more to do with being an employee of prison system why the Christian minister was allowed but not a Iman
