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Prosecutor disagrees with Pope Francis’s death penalty ruling
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Aug 5, 2018
An Ohio prosecutor says a new Catholic Church ruling stating the death penalty is always inadmissible hasn’t changed his stance that it is sometimes necessary to seek the death sentence.
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Nebraska Catholic bishops oppose execution of death-row inmate
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Jul 9, 2018
Encouraging an act of mercy and arguing it would not compromise justice, Nebraska’s three Catholic bishops said July 6 they oppose the scheduled execution in August of death-row inmate Carey Dean Moore.
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Argentine mom hopes Pope Francis can save her son in Texas
- Church in the US, Vatican
- Jun 11, 2016
Pope Francis on Saturday met a troubled fellow Argentine and mother of four: Lidia Guerrero, whose son, Victor Hugo Saldaño, has spent 20 years on death row in Texas waiting to be executed, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling finding racial prejudice in his sentence.
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