Tag: capital punishment

Ivan Cantu was executed Feb. 28 by the state of Texas despite claims that the Texan's 2001 conviction for killing James Mosqueda and Amy...

The state of Alabama carried out the first known execution by nitrogen gas Jan. 25 after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court Jan. 24 rejected an appeal by death-row inmate Kenneth Smith, whose planned execution by the state of Alabama --...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida will mark its fifth execution of 2023 as the state will execute James Barnes Aug. 3. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the...

WASHINGTON  -- A bill to ban the use of capital punishment by the federal government was reintroduced in Congress, where it faces steep odds...

WASHINGTON  -- Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., moved ahead with his latest execution Feb. 23, over the objections of Florida's Catholic bishops who appealed to...

WASHINGTON -- After a report dubbed 2022 "the year of the botched execution," Catholic activists renewed their calls for an end to capital punishment...

VATICAN CITY — The death penalty is an affront to human dignity that offers no solace to victims and denies the possibility for conversion...

WASHINGTON-- Arizona's Catholic bishops and other Catholic opponents of the death penalty spoke out against the June 8 execution of Frank Atwood, just as...

Choosing a side In the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the saint asks us to make a choice between "the two standards." Using...