Catholic leaders expressed disappointment with a June 6 ruling by a federal judge in Oklahoma calling the state's three-drug lethal injection method constitutional. The ruling enables the state to move ahead with executions for more than ...
WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a 6-3 ruling May 23, the Supreme Court said two Arizona death-row inmates could not present new evidence of ineffective counsel they said they received in state trials during their federal ...
Catholic leaders were thankful that death-row inmate Melissa Lucio was granted a last-minute stay of execution April 25, but they also said her sentence shows a failure in the use of capital punishment in this ...
Marking Good Friday, the most solemn day in the church calendar, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington venerated the cross of Jesus and urged the faithful to "consider carefully the impact that capital punishment has ...
The Supreme Court on March 24 ruled in favor of a Texas prisoner who wanted his pastor to pray aloud over him and place his hands on him in the execution chamber. Although the 8-1 ...
Catholic opponents of the death penalty, including Oklahoma City's archbishop, praised the Nov. 18 announcement that the Oklahoma governor granted death-row inmate Julius Jones clemency -- just hours before he was scheduled to be executed. "It ...
The Supreme Court's consideration of spiritual advisers praying aloud with death-row inmates or placing hands on them in prayer during executions faced an uphill battle Nov. 9 as some of the justices questioned if this ...
A case before the Supreme Court Nov. 9 argues that death-row chaplains should have the final word. Specifically, they should be able to pray aloud with inmates and place their hands on them in ...
In his latest column, Monsignor. Charles Pope explains why Pope Francis updated the text of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to say that the death penalty is “inadmissible” in our times. He writes: “the ...
Activists who oppose the death penalty said the Justice Department's temporary stop of federal executions is a step in the right direction, but not enough. The order, given by Attorney General Merrick Garland in a memo ...
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