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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he prepares to board Air Force One in Missoula, Mont., Oct. 14, 2026. (OSV News/Evan Vucci, Reuters)

Trump calls off plan to livestream firing squad execution amid outcry

Kate Scanlon|Oct 15, 2026|3 Min Read

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, delivers the homily during a Sept. 11, 2026, Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington commemorating the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Just hours after his Oct. 12 audience with Pope Leo XIV, Archbishop Broglioissued a strong and lengthy statement against the planned livestreamed execution by firing squad of Ford Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, calling it a "public spectacle of barbarically killing our adversaries." (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada)

Archbishop Broglio calls Hasan firing squad plan a ‘public spectacle’ contrary to Church

OSV News|Oct 12, 2026|3 Min Read

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gestures during a news briefing during a June 10, 2026, session of the annual spring meeting of the USCCB in Orlando, Fla. After Pentagon officials said they planned to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad in December, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops denounced the plan as "barbaric” in an Oct. 9 statement. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)

Archbishop Coakley calls planned livestream of firing squad execution ‘barbaric’

Kate Scanlon|Oct 9, 2026|3 Min Read

A lethal injection chamber at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Wash., is seen Sept. 6, 2024, in this file photo. (OSV News photo/Matt Mills McKnight, Reuters)

Catholic advocates call Tennessee's failed execution 'horrifying'

Kate Scanlon|Oct 1, 2026|5 Min Read

An undated photo shows straps on an execution table. (OSV News photo/courtesy Florida Department of Corrections)

World

Global executions surge to highest recorded figure in 44 years, Amnesty International report says

Kate Scanlon|May 18, 2026|3 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

Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network, speaks at the Vatican Embassy in Washington Oct. 10, 2022, about World Day Against the Death Penalty. (CNS photo/Rick Reinhard, courtesy Catholic Mobilizing Network)

U.S. Catholic leaders speak out against three November executions

Carol Zimmermann|Nov 21, 2022|5 Min Read

Death-row inmate John Ramirez is shown in this undated photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Jan. 24, 2017. The state of Texas executed Ramirez by lethal injection late Oct. 5, 2022, for the 2004 murder of a Corpus Christi man. The 38-year-old inmate won a Supreme Court battle March 24 to have his pastor pray with him during his execution. (CNS photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Handout via Reuters) EDITOR'S NOTE: FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Texas executes inmate who won court battle over prayer in death chamber

Carol Zimmermann|Oct 6, 2022|3 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

The former gas chamber at New Mexico State Penitentiary, used only once in 1960 and later replaced by lethal injection. (Wikipedia)

Arizona bishops 'very concerned' about possible executions - including by gas chamber

Catholic News Agency|Jun 8, 2021|3 Min Read

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