spiritual-advisor

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5869 Lance Shockley v. Richard Adams, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-10-13 Denied IFP death-penalty free-exercise missouri-law ramirez-precedent religious-rights spiritual-advisor 1. Does the State of Missouri's decision to deny a condemned his choice of spiritual advisor solely on the basis of the individual's familial relation…
24A621 Jason Orlando Rios v. Florida Florida 2024-12-23 Presumed Complete execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise prison-rights religious-accommodation spiritual-advisor Whether a state prison's denial of religious accommodation for an inmate's spiritual advisor during execution violates the First Amendment's Free Exer…
22-6054 Stephen Barbee v. Bryan Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment execution-chamber fifth-circuit first-amendment free-exercise prison-litigation-reform-act prison-policy religious-rights rluipa spiritual-advisor Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in vacating the injunction requiring TDCJ to publish a clear policy on religious expression in the execution chamber