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by bcadmin | Dec 28, 2021 | Death Penalty Information Center, Death sentences, Executions, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Courts in wide swaths of the United States no longer impose death sentences or carry out executions, according to a report issued Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 19, 2021 | capital punishment, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, Executions, News | 0 |
Courts in wide swaths of the United States no longer impose death sentences or carry out executions, according to a report issued Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 6, 2021 | Associated Press, capital punishment, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, Executions, News | 0 |
A Missouri man was put to death Tuesday for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago, an execution performed over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers and even the pope.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 26, 2021 | capital punishment, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, News, Virginia | 0 |
At some of the prayer vigils for an end of the death penalty in Virginia Jan. 22 — held in locations across the state, including sites where lynchings took place — the names of those killed were read aloud.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 17, 2020 | capital punishment, Catholic Church, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, Executions, News | 0 |
A new report Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center said the use of capital punishment reached a historic low this year in the United States even with the return of federal executions by the Trump administration.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 16, 2020 | capital punishment, COVID-19, Death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
A new report Dec. 16 by the Death Penalty Information Center said the use of capital punishment reached a historic low this year in the United States even with the return of federal executions by the Trump administration.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 2, 2020 | capital punishment, Catholic Church, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death Penalty Information Center, Department of Justice, Executions, News, Sister Helen Prejean, Trump administration | 0 |
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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