Weeks Later, High Court Still at Odds on Buddhist Execution Case

It’s been six weeks since a divided U.S. Supreme Court halted the scheduled Texas execution of a murderer who sought to have his Buddhist spiritual adviser in the death chamber.

Some of the justices still aren’t ready to let the dispute go.

In a pair of highly unusual after-the-fact opinions, the court’s conservative justices Monday aired disagreements that were largely muffled when the court blocked Patrick Henry Murphy’s lethal injection on March 28.

Justice Samuel Alito, who hadn’t previously made his views public, said he would have rejected the request because Murphy waited too long to make it. Alito, joined ...