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Death penalty opponents disappointed with U.S. vote against global death penalty ban at U.N....
WASHINGTON -- When the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution Dec. 15 to establish a worldwide "moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing...
‘Race continues to play a major role in determining who shall live and who...
WASHINGTON -- Advocates working to end the death penalty say they have long seen the links between racism and capital punishment and they plan...
Sister Helen Prejean’s fight to abolish the death penalty: ‘What I saw set my...
WASHINGTON-- Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph, shows no signs of slowing down in her long-standing fight to end the death penalty.
At...
Nikolas Cruz, school shooter who took the lives of 17 people in Parkland, Fla.,...
MIAMI -- There is "no question" the actions of the Parkland, Florida, school shooter "were heinous," but "a sentence of life in prison without...
New term with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for U.S. Supreme Court amid increased security...
WASHINGTON-- The Supreme Court begins its new term Oct. 3, jumping right back into the fray with cases that take on affirmative action, voting,...
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...
Oklahoma proceeds with James Allen Coddington inmate execution despite calls for clemency
TULSA, Okla. (CNS) -- Ahead of Oklahoma's execution of death-row inmate James Allen Coddington Aug. 25, the Diocese of Tulsa joined calls by a...
Idaho Supreme Court upholds state law banning most abortions
BOISE, Idaho (CNS) -- The Idaho Supreme Court Aug. 12 upheld a state law that bans abortion except in cases of rape, incest or...
Stay of execution for Texas mother Melissa Lucio elicits thanks from Catholic leaders
WASHINGTON — Catholic leaders were thankful that death-row inmate Melissa Lucio was granted a last-minute stay of execution April 25, but they also said...
Supreme Court of South Carolina issues stay of execution for death-row inmate Richard Moore
WASHINGTON -- South Carolina's Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay blocking the state from executing death-row inmate Richard Moore by firing squad.
The brief...