Notre Dame Law School gathering makes case for abolishing death penalty
byBy Catherine M. Odell, OSV News NOTRE DAME, Ind. — The University of Notre Dame Law School hosted for the first time a four-day…
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USCCB president calls Trump orders on migration, death penalty ‘deeply troubling’
byBy Kate Scanlon, OSV News WASHINGTON — Executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on issues including migration, the environment and the death penalty…
Pope calls for end to foreign debt, death penalty ahead of Jubilee Year
byBy Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has called on all nations to eliminate the death penalty, to divert a…
US bishops join pope, other groups urging Biden to commute 40 death sentences
byBy Kate Scanlon, OSV News WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops’ conference was among the groups that urged President Joe Biden on Dec. 9 to…
Pope praises Catholic group that advocates for abolition of death penalty
byBy Kate Scanlon, OSV News WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Catholic Mobilizing Network, a group that advocates for the abolition of capital punishment in line…
Vatican says abortion, surrogacy, war, poverty are attacks on human dignity
byBy Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Being a Christian means defending human dignity and that includes opposing abortion, the death…
Advocates displeased with U.S. vote against global death penalty ban
byBy Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON — When the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution Dec. 15 to establish a worldwide “moratorium on executions with a…
Executions of mentally ill
on the line as legislative
session nears the end
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Kentucky’s lawmakers took an incremental step toward changing the death penalty in Kentucky on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted…
Activists see temporary stop of
federal executions as a starting point
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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Activists who oppose the death penalty said the Justice Department’s temporary stop of federal executions is…
Prayer vigils in Virginia call for end to death penalty
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — For Stephanie Niedringhaus, it was all about the names. At some of the prayer vigils for…