death penalty

In a statement released just after Buntion’s death, the bishops said that Buntion, one of the oldest death-row inmates with multiple chronic health condition and was of no threat to anyone.

The court’s March 4 ruling said a federal appeals court in 2020 should not have thrown out the death sentence for Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing that killed three people in 2013 at the Boston Marathon’s finish line.

Recent webinars emphasized not only the Catholic Church’s stance against capital punishment but the need for people of faith to step up and do their part to help bring an end to this practice in the U.S.

Justice Breyer, who is Jewish, has taken stands that both go against and support Catholic teaching.

A case before the Supreme Court Nov. 9 argues that death-row chaplains should be able to pray aloud with inmates and place their hands on them in prayer during executions.

During an online panel about the death penalty Oct. 19, panelists stressed how capital punishment goes against church teaching, and they also urged the nearly 500 participants to promote this discussion at their own parishes by tapping into available resources.

While many businesses and organizations were hamstrung by the near-immediate shutdown wrought last year by the coronavirus pandemic, the Catholic Mobilization Network flourished in ways like never before, according to its executive director, Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy.

Just prior to his execution, the group asked for prayers for Johnson and his victims on social media.