Religion and the Death Penalty

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• Faith Leaders Blast Trump Administration's Renewed Use of the Death Penalty

  

  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

  Faith leaders blast Trump administration’s renewed use of death penalty

  Religion News Service - Jack Jenkins

  The outcry comes as the U.S. Department of Justice carried out its second execution this week on Thursday morning (July 16) and is scheduled to …

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  U.S. bishops urge Trump, Barr to stop upcoming federal executions

  ncronline.org - Carol Zimmermann

  In response to the upcoming federal execution of Orlando Hall Nov. 19, and two more federal executions scheduled to take place in December, two U.S. …

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  Why Pope Francis and the Texas bishops are trying to save a man on death row

  The Washington Post - Marisa Iati

  The Catholic bishops in Texas are aiding efforts to stop the execution of a man whose case has captured Pope Francis’s attention amid a shift in the church to reject the death penalty in all circumstances. As the Supreme Court prepares to decide in October whether to hear the case of Argentina …

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  Top Vatican diplomat calls for universal abolition of death penalty

  americamagazine.org - Anne Condodina - Catholic News Service

  VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Abolishing the death penalty worldwide would reflect the brave and hope-filled belief that crime can be dealt with without …

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  Shane Claiborne: Christians are why the death penalty lives on

  Religion News Service - G. Jeffrey MacDonald

  Wherever Christians are most concentrated in America is where the death penalty has flourished. (RNS) — With America’s next executions scheduled for …

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  Pope Francis changes Catholic Church teaching to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’

  The Washington Post - Chico Harlan

  ROME — Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church teaching to fully reject the death penalty, the Vatican announced Thursday, saying it would work to abolish capital punishment worldwide. The revision to several sentences of the catechism, the compendium of Catholic beliefs, has the potential to …