Re: Free exercise of religion trumps all for Neil Gorsuch

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Mar 19, 2025 at 11:55:53 AM PDT, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

If the US Supreme Court is petitioned to grant a stay of execution, it
requires at least 5 of 9 justices to agree to the order. (Yeah yeah. I
know this is equity. It's a writ, not an order.)

Hoffman v. Westcott

In this case, there's no stay.

Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson wrote nothing. Neil Gorsuch wrote a brief
dissent.

The prisoner awaiting execution is a Bhuddist. There is a tradition of
meditative breathing at time of death that the method of execution to be
used -- asphyxiation by nitrogen gas -- would prevent.

I find this hard to believe since it would imply that all Buddhists can
anticipate their time of death such that an entire tradition can built around
the anticipation of it.

It's unconstitutional for you to question the sincerity of a religious
tenet! Besides, what does religion have to do with logic?

In this case, as there's a death warrant, the time of execution is known.
Cannot the prisoner meditate till no longer able to once the gas has
been turned on? One is not likely to be conscious with many natural
deaths anyway.

None of it makes sense.