Tag: capital punishment
President Joe Biden commutes most of the 40 federal death penalty...
WASHINGTON -- Several days after speaking with Pope Francis, President Joe Biden announced Dec. 23 that he would commute most existing federal death sentences...
Opponents of capital punishment urge President Joe Biden to commute existing...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. bishops' conference was among the groups that urged President Joe Biden on Dec. 9 to commute existing federal death sentences...
Papal academy gives U.S. death row chaplain Dale Recinella ‘Guardian of...
VATICAN CITY -- Capital punishment promotes a deadly attitude of revenge and denies the possibility of change in the lives of incarcerated people, Pope...
Texas death-row inmate Ivan Cantu executed despite allegations of false testimony...
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...
Alabama turns death row inmate into ‘guinea pig’ with first known...
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...
Alabama death-row inmate Kenneth Smith scheduled for first known execution by...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court Jan. 24 rejected an appeal by death-row inmate Kenneth Smith, whose planned execution by the state of Alabama --...
Governor Ron DeSantis signs death warrant; Florida inmate James Barnes scheduled...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida will mark its fifth execution of 2023 as the state will execute James Barnes Aug. 3.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the...
Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act introduced in Congress; Bishops to support...
WASHINGTON -- A bill to ban the use of capital punishment by the federal government was reintroduced in Congress, where it faces steep odds...
Gov. Ron DeSantis disregards Catholic bishops, signs death warrant marking Florida’s...
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...
Death Penalty Information Center names 2022 ‘the year of the botched...
WASHINGTON -- After a report dubbed 2022 "the year of the botched execution," Catholic activists renewed their calls for an end to capital punishment...