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- Nov 12, 2019
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All eyes on Texas governor as calls grow to halt execution
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Nov 9, 2019
Texas governor Greg Abbott is facing calls to stop the execution of Rodney Reed, who is set to die this month for a 1996 killing despite new evidence that even a growing number of Republican legislators say raises serious questions about his guilt.
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Federal court grants Florida death-row inmate temporary stay
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Oct 25, 2019
James Dailey, a prisoner who has been on Florida’s death row for more than three decades and who has maintained his innocence, was granted a temporary stay of execution Oct. 23.
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Bishops urge stay of execution, note ‘strong evidence’ inmate is innocent
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Oct 22, 2019
The eight Catholic bishops of Florida have written to Gov. Ron DeSantis urging him to stay the Nov. 7 execution of James Dailey at the Florida State Prison in Starke.
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Event to mark Catholic group’s 10-year fight against death penalty
- Church in the US, Interviews
- Oct 10, 2019
Catholic Mobilizing Network Against the Death Penalty celebrates its ten year anniversary this week.
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Indiana’s Catholic bishops wanted renewed execution freeze
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Oct 7, 2019
Indiana’s Catholic bishops are calling for a renewed moratorium on executions at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute.
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Indiana bishops want decision to resume federal death penalty rescinded
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Oct 5, 2019
In an Oct. 4 statement, the Catholic bishops of Indiana said the federal government’s decision this past summer to end a 16-year moratorium on executing federal inmates is “regrettable, unnecessary and morally unjustified.”
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