Alabama Executes Murderer: An Alabama man who raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl in 1995 was put to death yesterday. The Associated Press reports that Dominique Ray won a stay of execution from the 11th Circuit Wednesday arguing that his rights were violated because his imam was not permitted to be in the room with Ray during the execution. That stay was lifted by a 5-4 order by the Supreme Court late Thursday. The state had argued that, for security reasons, only prison employees are allowed in the execution room. Evidence introduced at trial indicates that Ray and an accomplice picked up Tiffany Harville from her home on July 15, 1999. Ray knew the girl, and told others that he wanted to have sex with her. The men drove the girl to a field and raped her then cut her throat before taking her purse and an some of her clothing. Over a month later, her decomposed body was discovered along a remote county road.
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