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Capital Punishment

Death Penalty

Catholic activist sees more momentum to end death penalty 5 years after catechism update

Kate Scanlon|Dec 14, 2023|5 Min Read

Death Penalty

Report: Fewer states use capital punishment, but more prisoners executed in 2023

Kate Scanlon|Dec 1, 2023|4 Min Read

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DeSantis disregards Catholic bishops on death penalty, oversees Florida's 100th execution

Kate Scanlon|Feb 23, 2023|5 Min Read

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Pennsylvania governor calls on state lawmakers to abolish capital punishment as 'statement of morality'

Kate Scanlon|Feb 17, 2023|3 Min Read

Executions

Oregon commutations, Oklahoma scheduling pace key death penalty report

Mark Pattison|Dec 19, 2022|5 Min Read

The Oklahoma State Penitentiary is seen in McAlester, Okla., Sept. 30, 2015. (CNS photo/Nick Oxford, Reuters)

Oklahoma death-row inmate executed by lethal injection

Catholic News Service|Aug 25, 2022|4 Min Read

Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille, and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City are seen in this composite photo. (CNS composite; photos by Paul Haring and Archdiocese of Oklahoma City)

Catholic leaders decry federal judge's ruling on lethal injections

Carol Zimmermann|Jun 7, 2022|3 Min Read

Melissa Lucio is seen in this undated photo. Lucio, a Catholic mother of 14, was sentenced to death in Texas in 2007 for the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, that Lucio, now 53, has maintained was due to an accidental fall down a stairwell. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution April 25, 2022. (CNS photo/courtesy Melissa Lucio's defense team via Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops)

Texas bishops welcome stay of execution for mother on death row

John Lavenburg|Apr 26, 2022|4 Min Read

Demonstrators in Washington rally against the death penalty outside the U.S. Supreme Court building Oct. 13, 2021, where justices were hearing arguments in the federal government's bid to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

Supreme Court likely to reinstate death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber

Carol Zimmermann|Oct 13, 2021|4 Min Read

The lethal injection room at California's San Quentin State Prison. (California Department of Corrections/Wikimedia CC BY 2.0)

Survey: A majority of US Catholics support the death penalty

Matt Hadro|Jul 21, 2021|3 Min Read

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is seen at the Justice Department in Washington June 15, 2021. (CNS photo/Win McNamee, Pool via Reuters)

Activists see temporary stop of federal executions as a starting point

Carol Zimmermann|Jul 6, 2021|5 Min Read

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Virginia legislature votes to abolish the death penalty

Catholic News Agency|Feb 22, 2021|2 Min Read

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