Death penalty Archives

Federal executions in Indiana said to ‘add violence on top of violence’

Jul 1, 2020

A Department of Justice announcement in mid-June that it would resume federal executions beginning at a federal prison within the Archdiocese of Indianapolis drew words of remorse and prayers from Catholic leaders for the crime victims of as well as for the inmates slated to die.

By Natalie Hoefer

Catholic leaders denounce court’s rejection of federal death penalty appeal

Jun 30, 2020

When the Supreme Court announced June 29 that it would not hear an appeal by federal death-row inmates challenging the method to be used in their upcoming executions, a longtime advocate against capital punishment said the court “abdicated its legal and moral responsibilities.”

By Carol Zimmermann

Setting of execution dates for federal death-row prisoners denounced
- Jun 17, 2020
Critics of the death penalty denounced the decision June 15 by Attorney General William Barr to set execution dates for four federal prisoners on death row.

By Mark Pattison
US Supreme Court halts Texas execution over clergy question
- Jun 17, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state during the coronavirus pandemic.

By Juan A. Lozano
Texas set to resume executions after delay due to pandemic
- Jun 16, 2020
HOUSTON — A Texas inmate condemned for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago was scheduled to die by injection Tuesday, as the nation’s busiest death penalty state prepared to resume executions following a four-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. Prosecutors said Ruben Gutierrez, 43, was

By Juan A. Lozano