In an 8-to-1 ruling, the court said Texas may not execute John Henry Ramirez, a death row inmate, unless his pastor can pray with and lay hands on him in the death chamber.
In her first day of responding to senators’ questions, the judge gave few hints about her judicial philosophy but spoke forcefully about public safety and terrorism.
A judge ordered construction of the development in Cape Town to be halted, saying that the developer had not properly consulted Indigenous South Africans.