inmates differently according to their faith. it favored christian inmates by allowing their faith leader by nobody else of any other faith. the federal appeals court agreed, or at least they stayed that execution so they could consider it. that happened on wednesday of this week, two days ago but lawyers for the state of alabama filed an emergency petition asking the u.s. supreme court to step in and let the execution move forward and last night in a 5-4 decision they did that. the justices voted to let the execution go forward as planned. justice kagan wrote a three-page descent quoting from that. she says this court -- excuse me, today this court reverses that decision as an abuse of discretion and permits mr. ray's execution to go forward. given the gravity of this situation, that decision is profoundly wrong. the clearest command of the establishment clause this court