South Carolina lawmakers passed a bill May 7, 2021, to add firing squads or the electric chair as death penalty options if lethal injection drugs are not available.
South Carolina death penalty now includes electric chair, firing squad
Supreme Court to review Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty case
The Supreme Court’s March 22 announcement that it would hear a government appeal to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brings the death penalty issue in front of the Biden administration.
Photos of the Week: Jan. 10-17, 2021
Spotlighted this week: Indonesia earthquake, National Guard at the U.S. Capitol, and the Great Blessing of Water.
Lisa Montgomery put to death after Supreme Court reversal
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.
U.S. bishops urge Trump, Barr to stop upcoming federal executions
After a hiatus of about two decades, Barr announced July 25,2019, the U.S. government would resume federal executions.
U.S. bishops say ‘enough’ on federal executions
Just hours before the sixth federal execution took place this year, and two days before the next one was scheduled, two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen called on the government to end this practice.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is remembered as ‘jurist of historic stature’
In anti-death penalty and pro-immigrant opinions, Ginsburg sided with Catholic Church leaders, but she differed with them in her support for legalized abortion, same-sex marriage and the mandate that contraception be covered in all health insurance plans.
Cardinal Tobin asks Trump to grant clemency to federal death-row inmate
In a letter to President Donald Trump, Cardinal Tobin said capital punishment makes the United States morally stand apart in the world.