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Panel says ‘faithful agenda’ for 2022 means persevering through setbacks
WASHINGTON — People of faith looking to see their values reflected in their politics cannot give up in the face of legislative setbacks, said...
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev subject of U.S. Supreme Court review in death-penalty case
WASHINGTON -- Just two days after this year's Boston Marathon, the Supreme Court revisited the bombing at the 2013 race that killed three people...
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...
Retired New York priest encourages clergy to ‘green’ their pulpits as Season of Creation...
CLEVELAND — Father Michael Bausch has long been concerned about the environment and would speak at times about care for God’s creation during homilies...
U.S. death row chaplain receives ‘Guardian of Life’ award from papal academy
VATICAN CITY — Death row inmates in Florida’s prisons refer to their 6-foot-by-9-foot cell as their “house,” with some having lived in their “house”...
Temporary halt to federal executions seen by activists as starting point
WASHINGTON — Activists who oppose the death penalty said the Justice Department’s temporary stop of federal executions is a step in the right direction,...
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...