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| DOC Allowing Spiritual Ceremony After Execution |
| By muskogeephoenix.com |
| Published: 10/14/2010 |
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A Buddhist spiritual adviser to an Oklahoma death row inmate will be permitted to conduct several religious rituals on the inmate’s body after his execution, an attorney said Wednesday after a federal judge dismissed the inmate’s case. Donald Ray Wackerly, 41, was seeking to have a Buddhist monk inside the death chamber when he is put to death Thursday for the 1996 shooting death of a Laotian fisherman Pan Sayakhoummane during a robbery in Sequoyah County. U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot dismissed the complaint late Wednesday after Wackerly’s attorney, Micheal Salem, said an agreement had been reached with state prison officials. Under the agreement, once Wackerly has been pronounced dead, his spiritual adviser, Thubten Jampel, will be allowed to enter the execution room to perform several rituals, Salem said. Read More. |
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