Texas has executed John Henry Ramirez ... power,” Moore had written in an affidavit in support of Ramirez’s request for the pastor to “lay hands” on him at his execution.

“Our society would be better if John is allowed to live,” Moore said. Ramirez is willing to remain in prison the rest of his life if he can be a field minister, the pastor said, working behind ...

Who can say no to God?” The 58-year-old Southern Baptist pastor became the spiritual advisor to John Ramirez, a 37-year-old death row prisoner, in 2017. Moore visits Ramirez around once a month ...

Ramirez's execution was delayed last year after he argued that the state was violating his religious freedom by not letting his pastor lay hands on him at the time of his lethal injection.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. John Ramirez was scheduled to die Wednesday. His last request to the ...

As the lethal drug coursed through John Henry Ramirez’s veins Wednesday night, Pastor Dana Moore laid his hands on the Texas death row inmate’s chest. A prayer rang out as Ramirez was executed ...

Specifically, he requested that Pastor Dana Moore of Corpus Christi ... I asked Moore how God saw Ramirez. “God sees John as he created him,” Moore said, not as the sum of all the things ...

The new case concerned John Henry Ramirez ... the pastor of Second Baptist Church in Corpus Christi. Mr. Ramirez asked that his pastor be allowed to hold his hand or touch his shoulder or foot ...

Justices will hear an appeal from attorneys representing death row inmate John Ramirez ... whether his Baptist pastor can touch him as the lethal drugs are administered. Ramirez's attorneys ...

"I'm praying for everybody in this whole process, for peace, for encouragement, and comfort for whatever that looks like," said Dana Moore, John Henry Ramirez's Pastor. "I think it's important for ...