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The search for the 14th Stockton Unified superintendent in 17 years has been delayed after the Board of Trustees removed the item from the Oct. 11 agenda.

Stockton Unified will kick off the search for its 14th superintendent in 17 years at the Oct. 11 Board of Trustees meeting, less than a month before four of seven board seats are up for election.

The ruling by the US Supreme Court, allowing John Ramirez to have his spiritual adviser in the execution chamber to pray and “lay hands” on him, opens the way for the executions of other death row inmates who have made similar requests.

Texas has executed John Henry Ramirez, whose spiritual adviser was allowed to pray aloud and "lay hands" on him as he died after a US Supreme Court ruling led to

Ramirez, 38, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the 2004 killing 46-year-old Pablo Castro.

Texas news: Inmate John Ramirez's pastor will be alongside him in the death chamber, fulfilling a request he made during his scheduled execution one year ago.

Texas death row inmate John Ramirez, who won a legal bid to have a preacher by his side ...

A US inmate at the centre of a legal battle over the religious rights of death row prisoners was executed in Texas on Wednesday for murder.

Texas inmate John Henry Ramirez was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday (October 5) evening for the 2004 murder of Pablo Castro, a convenienc...

Ramirez was sentenced to death for murdering Corpus Christi convenience store clerk Pablo Castro. After a previous execution was halted, Ramirez won a Supreme Court case over death row inmates’ religious rights.