Catholic leaders speak up against Oklahoma’s first execution since 2015
Catholic leaders spoke out against the execution of John Grant Oct. 28 in Oklahoma — the first execution carried out by the state in six years.
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by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2021 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, News, Oklahoma, Sister Helen Prejean, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
Catholic leaders spoke out against the execution of John Grant Oct. 28 in Oklahoma — the first execution carried out by the state in six years.
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While many businesses and organizations were hamstrung by the near-immediate shutdown wrought last year by the coronavirus pandemic, the Catholic Mobilization Network flourished in ways like never before, according to its executive director, Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy.
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill requiring death-row inmates to choose between the electric chair or the firing squad for their executions if lethal injection drugs are not available.
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A move by the Department of Justice to expand how it carries out federal death sentences — to include electrocution, gas or firing squads along with lethal injections –was sharply criticized by Catholic anti-death penalty activists.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 17, 2020 | Attorney General William Barr, capital punishment, Catholic Church, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, Executions, Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, News, Trump administration | 0 |
Critics of the death penalty denounced the decision June 15 by Attorney General William Barr to set execution dates for four federal prisoners on death row.
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