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  • Sotomayor: 13 executed under Trump administration ‘deserved more’ from court

    Sotomayor: 13 executed under Trump administration ‘deserved more’ from court

    • Jan 20, 2021

    Although the Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Dustin Higgs Jan. 15, two justices made their objections known loud and clear in dissents that called into question the speed of these decisions and even the constitutionality of capital punishment.

    By Carol Zimmermann
  • Lisa Montgomery put to death after Supreme Court reversal

    Lisa Montgomery put to death after Supreme Court reversal

    • Jan 13, 2021

    After a flurry of court decisions, the Supreme Court reversed a pair of rulings from federal appeals courts that had put death-row inmate Lisa Montgomery’s execution on hold, and it denied two other last-minute requests to postpone the execution.

    By Carol Zimmermann
  • Catholic advocates against death penalty urge clemency for woman on federal death row

    Catholic advocates against death penalty urge clemency for woman on federal death row

    • Dec 31, 2020

    In a Nov. 12 Facebook post, Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille and longtime death penalty opponent, said: “We must stop the execution of Lisa Montgomery. Lisa was psychotic — unable to act rationally — when she committed a terrible crime. She desperately needed psychiatric care and instead she got a death sentence. “

    By Carol Zimmermann
  • Catholic leaders decry additional federal execution measures

    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.

    By Carol Zimmermann
  • U.S. bishops urge Trump, Barr to stop upcoming federal executions

    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.

    By Carol Zimmermann
  • Catholic activists applaud encyclical’s stance against death penalty

    Catholic activists applaud encyclical’s stance against death penalty

    • Oct 5, 2020

    Pope Francis tackled several issues in his new encyclical, but the section devoted to ending capital punishment was particularly cheered by U.S. Catholics who oppose the death penalty.

    By Carol Zimmermann
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