USA: Jew who was condemned to death will not be allowed to pray on Shabbos

William Hardy Mick, 40, a Jew who was sentenced to death, and was imprisoned in a prison in Kentucky in the United States, lost a lawsuit filed this week by his lawyers, demanding that he leave his cell for Shabbos prayers in the jail synagogue.


The appeals court ruled that the prison does not violate the prisoner's religious freedom, by restricting him from leaving to the Shabbos prayers.


Hardy was sentenced to execution, for the murder of the couple Joseph and Elizabeth and Wilnitz and their son, in 2003, in order to inherit them.

The couple's daughter who is serving a life sentence was also accused of murdering. In a letter Mick sent to the media, he said that did not kill the family, and that he is innocent.


Mick said that he could not pray in the cell near the toilet pit which the guards forbade him to cover, and that he is authorized to go to church only on the prayer of the Protestant religion, on Sundays, and on the prayer of Catholics that take place on Thursday.

He said there is no reason not to be allowed to join the rest of the Jewish prisoner's who pray on Shabbos.


However the judge ruled that there is no violation of freedom of worship and that Mick will remain in prison.

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