SCOTUS Conservatives Bicker Over Death Penalty/Religion

The Supreme Court justices' tempers are showing.

In an unusual written exchange released Monday, conservative members of the court — divided over a Texas death penalty case — argued about whether the court was right to halt the execution of Patrick Henry Murphy. Murphy is a Buddhist inmate who had been denied the right to have a Buddhist spiritual advisor present at his execution even though the state regularly granted Christians and Muslims the right to have spiritual advisors of their faiths present in the execution room.

Yes, the court was right, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote (joined by Chief Justice John Roberts). The government playing favorites with which religious advisors the condemned may access in the death chamber (wrap your head around that concept) clearly violates the 1st Amendment's promise of freedom of religion.