I think SCOTUS got blindsided by Ray and had a little more time to think things through the second time around. Murphy, although his filing to the courts came eight days before, had been attempting to resolve the matter with TDoC for a month and was getting crickets to his question regarding any Buddhists employed by the state prisons, only then turning to litigation.
LWOP is my baseline sentence for lookouts, but that he was an escapee serving a rape sentence and the person killed was an ambushed peace officer that is enough to steer me over to death.
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