‘Dead Man Walking’ at 30: The Fight Continues
Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, PhD
December 30, 2024
“Grace comes and wakes us up,” says Sister Helen Prejean, who has dedicated her life to fighting capital punishment in the United States. “It’s what you do with it when it comes that counts.”
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US bishops join pope, other groups urging Biden to commute 40 death sentences
OSV News
December 10, 2024
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The U.S. bishops’ conference was among the groups that urged President Joe Biden on Dec. 9 to commute exiting federal death sentences before President-elect Donald Trump, who has sought to expand the use of capital punishment, ...
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Report examines ‘persistent racial disparities’ in federal death penalty use
OSV News
November 20, 2024
A new report by the Death Penalty Information Center examined what it called persistent racial disparities in federal death penalty prosecutions.
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Pope praises Catholic group that advocates for abolition of death penalty
OSV News
October 14, 2024
Catholic Mobilizing Network, a group that advocates for the abolition of capital punishment in line with Catholic teaching, marked the World Day Against the Death Penalty Oct. 10 in an event at the Holy See's apostolic nunciature in Washington.
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Texas executes death-row inmate despite allegations of false testimony at trial
OSV News
March 1, 2024
Ivan Cantu was executed Feb. 28 by the state of Texas despite claims that the Texan's 2001 conviction for killing James Mosqueda and Amy Kitchen, his cousin and his cousin's fiancee, was based on false testimony.
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South Carolina carries out execution by firing squad