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- Dec 3, 2020
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Catholic leaders decry additional federal execution measures
- Dec 2, 2020
A move by the Department of Justice to expand how it carries out federal death sentences — to include electrocution, gas or firing squads along with lethal injections –was sharply criticized by Catholic anti-death penalty activists.
U.S. government executes man convicted of killing Texas teen
- Nov 20, 2020
Late Thursday, Orlando Hall was put to death for abducting and killing the teenager, Lisa Rene.
U.S. bishops urge Trump, Barr to stop upcoming federal executions
- Nov 19, 2020
Ahead of the execution of Orlando Hall that was scheduled for Nov. 19, and two more federal executions scheduled to take place in December, two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen called on the government to end this practice.
Chaplain to death-row inmates says use of death penalty in U.S. must end
- Nov 14, 2020
A Catholic chaplain to Florida’s death-row inmates used a virtual forum to focus on his most significant lifetime pursuit — raising awareness about the wrongness of America’s use of the death penalty.
Tennessee governor gives temporary reprieve to death-row inmate
- Nov 10, 2020
A Tennessee death-row inmate scheduled to be executed Dec. 3 was granted a reprieve until April 9 by the state’s Republican governor, due to COVID-19.
Tennessee bishops urge governor to stop upcoming execution
- Nov 3, 2020
Tennessee’s bishops have urged the state’s Republican governor, Bill Lee, to stop the upcoming execution of a Tennessee inmate on death row, saying: “Carrying out this execution does not serve the cause of justice.”
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