SCOTUS Halts Execution, Ruling Inmate Entitled to Buddhist Cleric

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court blocked Texas from executing a Buddhist inmate Thursday, saying that the condemned man, Patrick Murphy, was entitled to a spiritual adviser in the death chamber just as Christian prisoners may request a chaplain’s presence as they draw their final breath.

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when I go

and I think I'll go in a prison

because a poet's life

always ends badly

if they wait too long

to publish*

I want

a

French pastry chef

to attend me in the death chamber

in traditional white toque

to comfort me with

puits d'amour

bichon au citron

vol-au-vent

and a

tarte des Alpes*

plus

I'll need a sommelier

cuz I ain't going

into that good night

sober