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Court halts execution of Alabama man in religious freedom case By (0) Willie Smith Jr. was sentenced to death in 1992 for the abduction, robbery and murder of Sharma Johnson, 22, in 1991. File Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Corrections Feb. 10 (UPI) A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction halting the lethal injection of an Alabama man unless the state allows him to have his spiritual adviser with him in the execution chamber. Willie Smith III, 52, is set to die by lethal injection Thursday at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala. He was sentenced to death in 1992 for the abduction, robbery and murder of Sharma Johnson, 22, in 1991. ....
Share On Feb. 11, the state of Alabama intends to execute Willie B. Smith III without his pastor by his side which Smith alleges is a violation of his religious freedom. Smith has requested that Pastor Robert Wiley Jr., his friend and spiritual adviser, be able to pray with him and hold his hand up until his death. Currently, Alabama’s protocol does not allow for any religious figures to be present in the execution chamber and instead relegates them to the viewing room. The case is currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, where Smith’s representation is arguing that this is a prohibition of his religious rights. ....