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Jaclyn Diaz MORE Willie B. Smith is on death row for his conviction in the 1991 abduction, robbery, and murder of 22-year-old Sharma Ruth Johnson. Photo by NPR - Alabama Department of Corrections The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the planned execution of an Alabama death row inmate late Thursday night, after justices upheld a lower court's ruling requiring Willie B. Smith III's personal pastor to be in the chamber with him when he was given the lethal injection. The decision came down the same night Smith w...

Alabama calls off execution after US Supreme Court rules inmate, 51, convicted of fatally shooting a cop's sister in 1991 cannot be put to death without his pastor in the chamber Willie B. Smith III, 51, had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday night at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama The US Supreme Court ruled to stay Smith's execution hours before It ruled the state must allow Smith's personal pastor in the death chamber  Alabama has maintained that non-prison staff should not be in the room for security reasons  Smith was sentenced in 1992 for the m...

Supreme Court Stays Execution Of Alabama Inmate Who Requested Pastor’s Presence By Jaclyn Diaz  February 12, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the planned execution of an Alabama death row inmate late Thursday night, after justices upheld a lower court’s ruling requiring Willie B. Smith III’s personal pastor to be in the chamber with him when he was given the lethal injection. The decision came down the same night Smith was originally scheduled to be put to death inside of the William C. Holman Correctional Facility. In the ruling, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that Alabama’s Departmen...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Any federal investigation into New York’s COVID-19 nursing home deaths will be led by the Department of Justice, the White House said Friday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to weigh in Friday on a scathing report from New York Attorney General Letitia James accused the Cuomo administration of underreporting deaths at elder care facilities during the pandemic. “I ...

Whites-only group gets permit to use church in tiny Minnesota town By (0) The Asatru Folk Assembly was granted a permit to use this old church in Murdock, Minn., for a regional gathering site. Photo courtesy of Baldurshof: Third Hof of the Asatru Folk Assembly/Facebook Dec. 24 (UPI) -- City council members in Murdock, Minn., population 273, have approved a permit allowing a Whites-only group to use an abandoned Lutheran church as a regional site to gather. The 3-1 vote on Dec. 9 to approve a request by the Asatru Folk Assembly for a conditional use permit had nothing to do with beliefs or r...