The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Texas must allow a death row inmate to have a pastor pray over him and touch him as the prisoner is lethally injected, setting a broader precedent for religious rights of incarcerated individuals.

The high court ruled 8-1 in the decision, determining that the state of Texas’s arguments over potential disruptions to the execution process were not sufficient to overcome religious freedom rights under a law passed in 2000 known as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.