(AL.com) An Islamic group has sued the Alabama Department of Corrections for not allowing an imam, a Muslim clergy, into the death row chamber to pray with an inmate at his execution.
[Yusef] Maisonet, an imam who volunteers to lead Islamic prayers at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, was denied the right to accompany Muslim death row inmate Domineque Ray during his 2019 execution. At the time, Maisonet described Islamic rituals that were required for Muslims at the time of death.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, announced Thursday afternoon that it had filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile asking for a policy to allow imams to accompany death row inmates at their executions.
