As Arizona Prepares to Use Gas Chamber Again, Bishops Decry Death Penalty
In a statement, the Arizona Department of Corrections noted that state law permits death row inmates to choose between dying from lethal injection or gas.
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Pew Research Study: Majority of US Adults Support Death Penalty
While the Church teaches that capital punishment is not intrinsically evil, both Pope Francis and his immediate predecessors have condemned the practice in the West.
Death Penalty Abolition Gains Momentum After Virginia
Late last month, Virginia became the latest state to end capital punishment, and more repeals could be on the horizon.
Members of Congress Push for End to the Federal Death Penalty
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that President Biden was “opposed” to the federal death penalty, but offered no details on a possible stoppage of its use.
Supreme Court Rules Favorably Toward Inmate Requesting Priest at Execution
Last summer, the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops had called the state’s denial of a chaplain for Gutierrez “an egregious rejection of the possibility of forgiveness and redemption while the state commits the violence of an execution.”
Capital Punishment: It’s About Both the Penalty and the Death
COMMENTARY: It matters if the penalty is just or unjust, although it could be argued that today capital punishment is ‘inadmissible’ because the modern state is no longer competent to administer it.
Indiana Bishops Call for End to Federal Executions
Leading U.S. bishops have called for a stop to the executions, pointing to the season of Advent.
Catholic Bishops Tell Trump: End Executions for Advent
With a change of administrations occurring on Jan. 20, the Trump administration is on track for ten executions in 2020 and three more before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Does Fratelli Tutti Change Church Teaching on the Death Penalty?
Theologian Father Thomas Petri of the Dominican House of Studies says that Pope Francis is speaking in continuity with recent popes including Pope St. John Paul II, who issued “a very strong statement” about capital punishment in his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae.
Forming Catholic Consciences: Bishops Note Trump’s Resumption of Federal Executions
The major-party U.S. presidential platforms take opposing sides on capital punishment, Trump in support and Biden newly opposed.
