Tag: death penalty

WASHINGTON -- After a flurry of court decisions, the Supreme Court reversed a pair of rulings from federal appeals courts that had put death-row...

WASHINGTON  -- Federal executions are at odds with Advent as a season "of anticipated redemption" and must be stopped, said the chairmen of the...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court Nov. 19 denied a stay of execution for federal inmate Orlando Hall, who was put to death by lethal...

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,...

VATICAN CITY — Opposition to the death penalty is the “logical and moral consequence” of recognizing the dignity of all human life and of...

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...

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...

WASHINGTON -- When the Supreme Court announced June 29 that it would not hear an appeal by federal death-row inmates challenging the method 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...

WASHINGTON -- Critics of the death penalty denounced the decision June 15 by Attorney General William Barr to set execution dates for four federal...