Editorial — Capital punishment must end
byFour national Catholic journals — America, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter and Our Sunday Visitor — united to issue this joint editorial. It…
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A Time to Speak — Quit tinkering with the ‘machinery of death’
byBy Father Patrick Delahanty Fifteen years ago last month, Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun concluded that after a 20-year struggle with the issue…
It’s just a matter of time
bySo now the state of Kentucky is looking for a new way to kill its death row inmates. A few weeks ago the state…
Committee to discuss death penalty Aug. 1
byBy Glenn Rutherford, Record Editor Last week in California, a federal judge ruled that the state’s death penalty system was so broken that it…
Editorial — What next? Guillotine?
byWhat next, the guillotine? To avoid the horrific scene that played out in Oklahoma on April 29, where an allegedly-lethal injection once again went…
Editorial — Two wrongs don’t make a right
bySeveral news reports last week detailed the excruciating death — at the hands of the state of Ohio — of convicted murderer Dennis McGuire….