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…
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Executions of mentally ill
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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
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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…
Bishops call for an end to the federal death penalty
byWASHINGTON — A joint statement from two U.S. bishops who head different committees of the U.S. bishops called for an end to the federal…
Catholic advocates against death penalty urge clemency for woman on federal death row
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The execution date of Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, is currently undecided….
Maryland Catholic Conference urges Trump to stop a federal execution
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Eight Catholic bishops serving Maryland dioceses urged President Donald Trump Dec. 22 to stop the planned…
Catholic activists applaud encyclical’s stance against death penalty
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Pope Francis tackled several issues in his new encyclical, but the section devoted to ending capital…
Death penalty denounced for ignoring inmates’ capability to be ‘redeemed’
byBy Natalie Hoefer, Catholic News Service TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — On Sept. 24, Providence Sister Barbara Battista stood across the street from where her…
Why is this system of injustice allowed to linger?
byNearly a decade ago, Kentuckians learned that the death penalty here is broken beyond repair. That conclusion came from Kentucky legal scholars and jurists…