Texas bans prison chaplains from execution chamber

After the U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of a Texas inmate because his Buddhist chaplain would not be allowed into the execution chamber, the state has chosen to ban all prison chaplains from its execution chamber. The state previously allowed only Christian and Muslim clerics employed with the state into the death chamber. In a similar case in February the Court declined to stop the execution of an Alabama prisoner who requested an imam at his execution. (TAB)