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Becket Fund: Fifth Circuit Upholds Stay of Execution for Buddhist Inmate Seeking Right to Priest in Death Chamber
November 13, 2019
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty issued the following news release:

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- Fifth Circuit grants emergency relief to Texas inmate after state denies access to spiritual advisor

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In an emergency ruling, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Murphy v. Collier has upheld a stay of execution for inmate Patrick Murphy, who seeks access to a Buddhist priest in the hours before his death. The dec . . .

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