Death row inmate Dominique Ray, 42, is shown in this booking photo
in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S., provided February 7, 2019.
Atmore, Ala. -- A Muslim inmate who complained in a legal challenge that 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 attorneys had also asked in legal filings to stay the execution on other grounds. Lawyers say it was not disclosed to the defense team that records from a state psychiatric facility suggested Owden suffered from schizophrenia and delusions.
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.
I understand that I am not in any position to judge my fellow man. Final judgment on how a person lived his life will be made by a Higher Power. I am nobody. When I read things like this article describing the brutality of a human being who clearly does not deserve the right to live in a society of decent people, it makes my skin crawl. I am not reading anything about this man asking forgiveness for the mutilation of a young girl's life. All I am reading is about how society has wronged this man by denying him rights.
I am tired of the scum walking upright in this country. Dominique Ray should of had his nuts cut off the day he was sentenced to prison.
