(AL.com) An Alabama death row inmate set to die Thursday night was given access to the holy book of Islam after his lawyers argued in a recent court filing that the inmate spent the last two nights without it.
A document filed late Wednesday to U.S. District Judge Keith Watkins says Domineque Ray, an inmate who is scheduled to be executed Thursday night, hasn’t been allowed to have a Quran in the death watch cell. On Thursday, the lawyers declared that motion moot and said the Alabama Department of Corrections provided Ray a Quran early Thursday morning.
“Mr. Ray has been deprived of access to the central and most important text of his religion during what are likely to be his last two nights on Earth,” the filing states.
