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.
Catholic leaders decry additional federal execution measures
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.
Supreme Court denies appeals for two recent federal executions
Following the resumption of federal executions, he Supreme Court denied the appeals of two federal death-row inmates.
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.
Ahead of third execution, church leaders had called for clemency or delay
Several Catholic bishops joined more than 1,000 religious leaders urging Trump and Attorney General William Barr July 7 to stop the execution scheduled Aug. 28.
U.S. carries out the first federal execution in nearly two decades
At 2 a.m. July 14, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the decision of a temporary stay of all scheduled federal executions and Daniel Lewis Lee was executed and declared dead at 8:07 a.m.
Faith leaders urge president, attorney general to halt federal executions
Over 1,000 religious leaders have signed a joint statement urging President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr to stop the executions scheduled to take place in July and August at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Catholic leaders denounce court’s rejection of federal death penalty appeal
The Supreme Court announced June 29 that it would not hear an appeal by federal death-row inmates challenging the method to be used in their upcoming executions.