Religion and the Death Penalty

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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

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

  

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

  Religion News Service - Jack Jenkins
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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

  • United States

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

  ncronline.org - by Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service

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

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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

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

  The Washington Post

  “The remedy for the violation of his rights cannot be another death sentence, but commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment,” attorneys for the bishops wrote last month in a petition to the Supreme Court. Saldaño’s case has been of particular interest to Pope Francis, who also hails from …

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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

  • Catholicism

  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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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

  • Death Penalty

  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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  Indiana Abolition Coalition

  

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

  The Washington Post

  The church’s updated teaching describes capital punishment as “inadmissible” and an attack on the “dignity of the person.” Previously, the church allowed for the death penalty in very rare cases, only as a means of “defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.” Francis has for years been a …