Credit: Inked Pixels/Shutterstock. Dec. 1, 2019 Catholic News Agency WASHINGTON – For the first time in more than three decades, a majority of Americans favor life imprisonment without parole over... read more →
By Jean Gonzalez | Florida Catholic ORLANDO | Despite marking Respect Life Month in October and World Day Against the Death Penalty, Florida has its 100th execution scheduled on the... read more →
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed his second death warrant last Tuesday for the execution of Gary Ray Bowles. His execution is scheduled for August 22 at 6 p.m. Bowles was... read more →
This undated photograph shows a close-up of the table where executions are carried out by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison in California. (CNS photo/courtesy of California Department of... read more →
Pope Francis stands at the end of the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP via Crux) By Inés San Martín... read more →
Statement on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Imposition of a Moratorium on the Death Penalty in California For many years now, my brother Catholic bishops and I have been calling for an... read more →
The South Korean bishops’ conference has called for an end to the death penalty, and asked the nation’s Constitutional Court to consider whether capital punishment violates South Korea’s constitution. “The... read more →