Tag: Catholic Mobilizing Network
U.S. Supreme Court throws out murder conviction and death penalty for...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Feb. 25 threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has...
President Donald Trump signs executive order on the federal death penalty,...
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the federal death penalty Jan. 20, among the first actions of his second term,...
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...
Sister Helen Prejean, Catholic leaders urge Texas governor Greg Abbott to...
WASHINGTON — Sister Helen Prejean, Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, and the Catholic Mobilizing Network have been joined by celebrities such as...
New Hampshire death penalty repeal bid called ‘an enormous victory for...
CONCORD, N.H. -- The New Hampshire Senate's vote to repeal the death penalty is "an enormous victory for life," according to the executive director...
U.S. Supreme Court examines potential racial bias in juries on death...
WASHINGTON -- In mid-March, the U.S. Supreme Court considered possible racially biased juries in two death penalty cases. They rejected one case and listened...
Catholic death penalty opponents praise pope’s catechism revision
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Aug. 2 announcement that Pope Francis had ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church calling the death...