Tag: execution
USCCB urges President Trump, Attorney General Barr to stop federal executions...
WASHINGTON -- Federal executions are at odds with Advent as a season "of anticipated redemption" and must be stopped, said the chairmen of the...
Supreme Court denies stay of execution for Texas inmate Orlando Hall;...
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court Nov. 19 denied a stay of execution for federal inmate Orlando Hall, who was put to death by lethal...
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...
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...
Florida bishops ask governor Ron DeSantis to spare life of Gary...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The executive director of the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops asked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, himself a Catholic, to stay the...