Death Penalty

Florida’s Catholic bishops wrote to Gov. Ron DeSantis, urging the state’s Catholic governor to stay the scheduled Oct. 14 execution of Samuel “Sammy” Smithers.

The Sept. 25 memo said to seek “the death penalty in all appropriate cases where, following full examination of the evidence and other relevant information, the applicable factors justify a …

President Donald Trump said at an Aug. 26 Cabinet meeting that capital punishment will be sought for all murders in Washington, D.C.

“We urge you to spare Mr. Windom’s life. “Every human life, given by God, is sacred,” the Florida bishops wrote Aug. 21 to Gov. Ron DeSantis.

(OSV News) — “The future of the death penalty in the United States seems to be at a pivotal moment,” observed Emmjolee Mendoza Waters as she introduced three speakers for her …

G. Marcus Cole, Notre Dame Law School dean, said that in 2018, Pope Francis made it clear that Catholics must now oppose the death penalty.

(OSV News) — As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists against the death penalty had sought clemency from …

The Supreme Court threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has been on death row for a quarter century. 

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Efforts to repeal the death penalty have been introduced in two Republican-led states, with some lawmakers citing their Catholic faith as a factor in their opposition …

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, said in a Jan. 22 statement executive orders signed …