Tag: death penalty
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee gives temporary reprieve to death-row inmate Pervis...
WASHINGTON -- A Tennessee death-row inmate scheduled to be executed Dec. 3 was granted a reprieve until April 9 by the state's Republican governor,...
Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople says opposition to death penalty is consequence...
VATICAN CITY — Opposition to the death penalty is the “logical and moral consequence” of recognizing the dignity of all human life and of...
Supreme Court denies appeals of federal death-row inmates; William LeCroy and...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court denied the appeals of two federal death-row inmates in late September.
On Sept. 22, it denied an appeal to postpone...
U.S. bishops say ‘enough’ on federal executions, call for ‘rehabilitation and...
WASHINGTON -- Just hours before the sixth federal execution took place this year, and two days before the next one was scheduled, two U.S. bishops' committee chairmen...
Sister Helen Prejean: Supreme Court ‘abdicated responsibilities’ in ignoring appeal by...
WASHINGTON -- When the Supreme Court announced June 29 that it would not hear an appeal by federal death-row inmates challenging the method to...
U.S. Supreme Court stops execution, says Texas prison officials need to...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court granted a last-minute stay of execution for Texas death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez June 16, saying the state prison...
Death penalty critics take aim at federal government’s push to move...
WASHINGTON -- Critics of the death penalty denounced the decision June 15 by Attorney General William Barr to set execution dates for four federal...
Catholic leaders denounce Texas rule banning chaplains from death chamber
WASHINGTON — Catholic leaders have spoken against the scheduled execution of Texas death-row inmate Ruben Gutierrez June 16 and have denounced the state’s rule...
Walter Barton executed in Missouri despite objections from state Catholic conference,...
WASHINGTON -- Catholic advocates against the death penalty spoke out against Missouri's May 19 execution of a death-row inmate, Walter Barton, whose death by...
Death penalty foes applaud message of new movie ‘Just Mercy,’ based...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The upcoming movie “Just Mercy” “has the potential to wake up out of a slumber the part of society that either...