Spiritual advisers offering final comfort in execution rooms

A Supreme Court ruling last March requires states to allow spiritual advisers to join condemned inmates in their final moments

ST. LOUIS (AP) — For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney in a drab room, alone except for the eyes of witnesses staring through thick, soundproof glass as unidentified executioners administered the lethal chemical from behind a cinderblock wall.

But in November, convicted killer 

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