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Death penalty perspective in the United States carries on with the same consistent inconsistency...
One of the maddening aspects of America's political landscape for Catholics is the inconsistencies of both political parties.
Some folks may oppose the death penalty...
Pope Francis says death penalty encourages revenge, not justice
VATICAN CITY — The death penalty is an affront to human dignity that offers no solace to victims and denies the possibility for conversion...
State Senator Colby Coash supporter of Nebraskans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty —...
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...
Significant year in U.S. Supreme Court brings to forefront abortion, school choice, death penalty...
WASHINGTON -- This past year was busy for the nation's high court, particularly with issues of interest to Catholics regarding abortion, religious liberty, COVID-19...
Ernest Johnson, executed in Missouri, ‘categorically ineligible for the death penalty,’ says Sister Helen...
WASHINGTON -- Following the Oct. 5 execution of Ernest Johnson at a state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri, Catholic opponents of the death penalty...
Following petition to abolish federal death penalty, documentary chronicles murder case gone awry
WASHINGTON — “The Phantom,” a new documentary on a capital murder case gone awry, is being released in theaters amid a Catholic Mobilizing Network...
Advocate says Nevada death penalty repeal on ‘right path’
WASHINGTON — Although legislation to repeal the death penalty in Nevada was stopped in its tracks in May, a Catholic death penalty advocate is...
Electric chair, firing squad added to death penalty methods in South Carolina
WASHINGTON — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill requiring death-row inmates to choose between the electric chair or the...
Execution site serves as backdrop as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signs death penalty repeal
ARLINGTON, Va. — While standing outside the prison that housed Virginia’s execution chamber, Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in the...
Boston Marathon bomber will have death penalty case reviewed by Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s March 22 announcement that it would hear a government appeal to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber...