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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 16, 2022 | Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, News | 0 |
At an Oct. 10 ceremony at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, Catholic advocates working to bring an end to the death penalty acknowledged leaders in the fight against capital punishment in the U.S.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Catholic advocates, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Death penalty, News, U.S. & World News, Vatican Embassy, World Day Against the Death Penalty | 0 |
At an Oct. 10 ceremony at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, Catholic advocates working to bring an end to the death penalty acknowledged leaders in the fight against capital punishment in the U.S.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2022 | Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Death penalty, lead, News, Pope Francis, prayer intention, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis is calling on Catholics worldwide to mobilize against the death penalty; a practice he says is both legally unnecessary and morally inadmissible.
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 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 | Apr 21, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Diocese of Charleston, Executions, News, South Carolina | 0 |
South Carolina’s Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay blocking the state from executing death-row inmate Richard Moore by firing squad.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 20, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Diocese of Charleston, Executions, News, South Carolina | 0 |
Richard Moore, a South Carolina death-row inmate, chose death by firing squad over electrocution but described both methods as unconstitutional.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 6, 2022 | Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Podcasts, Restorative Justice | 0 |
The Catholic Mobilizing Network has introduced a new podcast, “Encounters With Dignity,” available on many popular podcast platforms.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, Governor Greg Abbott, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
Texas Catholic leaders and other opponents of the death penalty are urging Texas officials to grant clemency to a 53-year-old Latina woman set to be executed in late April.
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 | Jan 29, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Archbishop Thomas Rodi, capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Church in the US, Death penalty, lead, News, pro-life | 0 |
After Alabama carried out the second execution of the year on Thursday, Jan. 27, the archbishop of Mobile vowed that he and the province’s other prelates will continue to speak out against capital punishment.
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