A Texas death row inmate’s demand for his personal pastor not only to be present, but also praying and in physical contact with his body during administration of the lethal drugs that will end the prisoner’s life, is a delay tactic, the state’s lawyer told the Supreme Court.
Texas Solicitor General Judd E. Stone II said the condemned man, John Henry Ramirez, 37, has been wasting everyone’s time trying to delay his inevitable execution.
