Tag: capital punishment
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...
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...
Arizona bishop Thomas J. Olmsted speaks out against capital punishment: ‘All...
WASHINGTON-- Arizona's Catholic bishops and other Catholic opponents of the death penalty spoke out against the June 8 execution of Frank Atwood, just as...
State Senator Colby Coash supporter of Nebraskans for Alternatives to the...
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...
Stay of execution for Texas mother Melissa Lucio elicits thanks from...
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...
U.S. Supreme Court rules convicted murderer John Ramirez is entitled to...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court March 24 ruled in favor of a Texas prisoner who wanted his pastor to pray aloud over him and...
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev subject of U.S. Supreme Court review...
WASHINGTON -- Just two days after this year's Boston Marathon, the Supreme Court revisited the bombing at the 2013 race that killed three people...