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by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death row, Executions, News, Oklahoma, Sister Helen Prejean | 0 |
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt gave another temporary reprieve to death-row inmate Richard Glossip, moving back his execution scheduled for Dec. 8 until next February while an appeals court reviews his claims of innocence.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death row, Executions, News, Sister Helen Prejean | 0 |
Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph, shows no signs of slowing down in her long-standing fight to end the death penalty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 11, 2022 | Arizona, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Diocese of Phoenix, News, Sister Helen Prejean | 0 |
Arizona’s Catholic bishops and other Catholic opponents of the death penalty spoke out against the June 8 execution of Frank Atwood, just as they did for the May 11 execution of Clarence Dixon, another Arizona death-row prisoner.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 7, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Oklahoma, Sister Helen Prejean | 0 |
Catholic leaders expressed disappointment with a June 6 ruling by a federal judge in Oklahoma calling the state’s three-drug lethal injection method constitutional.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Church in the US, criminal justice, Death penalty, lead, News, Sister Helen Prejean, Texas, Texas Conference of Catholic Bishops | 0 |
Soon after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay on the execution of Melissa Lucio on April 25 the bishops of Texas both commended her religious conversion, and lamented a flawed justice system that resulted in a “dubious” conviction.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 22, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Sister Helen Prejean, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
On April 21, Texas executed a 78-year-old inmate, Carl Buntion, by lethal injection.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, religious liberty, Sister Helen Prejean, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
The Supreme Court March 24 ruled in favor of a Texas prisoner who wanted his pastor to pray aloud over him and place his hands on him in the execution chamber.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, Death penalty, News, Sister Helen Prejean, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, U.S. Congress, U.S. Supreme Court, US politics | 0 |
Catholic leaders are encouraging people of faith to get involved in lobbying efforts against capital punishment and to discuss the issue in their parishes and with family members.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2021 | capital punishment, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Sister Helen Prejean, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
The Supreme Court’s last case of the year Dec. 9 looked at when death-row inmates can raise claims that they were given ineffective counsel.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2021 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Oklahoma, Sister Helen Prejean | 0 |
atholic opponents of the death penalty, including Oklahoma City’s archbishop, praised the Nov. 18 announcement that the Oklahoma governor granted death-row inmate Julius Jones clemency — just hours before he was scheduled to be executed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 18, 2021 | Catholic Mobilizing Network, Julius Jones, News, Oklahoma City, Sister Helen Prejean, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Catholic opponents of the death penalty, including Oklahoma City’s archbishop, praised the Nov. 18 announcement that the Oklahoma governor granted death-row inmate Julius Jones clemency — just hours before he was scheduled to be executed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 10, 2021 | ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Death-row inmates, Institutionalized Persons Act, John Ramirez, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, News, Religious Land Use, RLUIPA, Safety risk, Sister Helen Prejean, Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille, Supreme Court, Texas prison system, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The Supreme Court’s consideration of spiritual advisers praying aloud with death-row inmates or placing hands on them in prayer during executions faced an uphill battle Nov. 9 as some of the justices questioned if this would open up other requests or could impose a safety risk.
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