By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The execution date of Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, is set to go ahead on Jan. 12. In late December a federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled her execution while there had already been a stay in effect, granted because one […]
U.S. carries out first federal execution in nearly 2 decades
By Natalie Hoefer Catholic News Service TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — On the grounds of the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods near Terre Haute, news of the execution pierced the quiet on the morning of July 14. The bells of the Church of the Immaculate Conception there are tolled after any execution in the nation, […]
Death penalty ‘inadmissible’
Pope Francis prays in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Nicholas during a meeting with the heads of Christian churches in the Middle East in Bari, Italy, July 7. The pope has ordered a revision to the catechism to state that the death penalty is inadmissible and he committed the church to its abolition. […]
Catholic capital punishment opponents praise pope’s revision
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Aug. 2 announcement that Pope Francis had ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church calling the death penalty “inadmissible” was praised by Catholic death penalty opponents in the U.S. “I am overjoyed and deeply grateful to learn that Pope Francis closed the last […]