Alabama executed a prisoner for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl

The state of Alabama, United States, executed today Domineque Ray, sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a man 15-year-old girl in 1995 and who a year earlier had killed two brothers not to join his band.

Ray, a 42-year-old African American, he was pronounced dead at 22:12 local time (4:12 GMT Friday) after receiving a lethal injection at Holmore Prison in Atmore, according to the Corrections Department of Alabama.

The last words of Ray, who was Muslim, they were in Arabic.

The execution took place after an arduous legal battle that finally resolved the Supreme Court in which the defendant declared that the state of Alabama violated his religious rights as a Muslim by not allowing his imam to help him in the mortal room.

Alabama, however, yes this allows the Christian priest who works for his penitentiary system to help executions.

Ray was sentenced to death for murder in the summer of 1995 young people Tiffany Harville.

The court documents indicate that Ray and his accomplice, Marcus Owden, serving a sentence of life imprisonment, they took Harville to a cotton plantation in Selma, Alabama, where They raped her and beat her to death.

The body of Harville, abandoned in the plantation, It was found only a month later.

A year earlier, in February 1994, Ray and Owden had already killed the Earnest brothers and Reinhard Mabins, aged 18 and 13. respectively, because they refused to join their gang.

These three crimes remained in suspense until 1997, Owden He experienced a "spiritual awakening" and confessed to the authorities who also arrested Ray.

In February 1999, Ray was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the Mabinsand months later to death for the crime committed against Harville. Owden, on the other hand, fills life imprisonment for his role in the three crimes.

Today was the second run of the year in the United States and the number 1,492 since the death penalty it was restored in 1976. Alabama is responsible for 64 of these 1,492 people.

With information from EFEUSA