Judge says execution can proceed without imam present

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge says a Muslim inmate’s scheduled execution can proceed and ruled that Alabama does not need to let the inmate have an imam there.
U.S. District Judge Keith Watkins on Friday denied a stay requested by Dominique Ray.
The 42-year-old inmate is scheduled to be executed Feb. 7 for the 1995 fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Tiffany Harville.
Ray says his religious rights are being violated because the state has a Christian prison chaplain present at let