Texas previously allowed state-employed clergy to accompany inmates into the room where they’d be executed, but its prison staff included only Christian and Muslim clerics.
Death Penalty
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Supreme Court’s recent actions reveal its death penalty divide
In two recent actions, the U.S. Supreme Court revealed its death penalty decisions are hardly cut and dried.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
San Quentin’s chaplain: California’s death penalty moratorium has given us hope
Everything about the death penalty system seemed to be designed to deny hope.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
After California, the real reason we should end the death penalty—for good.
The most compelling reason not to execute the convicted is an existential one: We humans are not God.
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Death penalty opponents applaud sudden moratorium in California
“The intentional killing of another person is wrong and as governor, I will not oversee the execution of any individual,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
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California Governor Newsom places moratorium on executions
The 737 inmates on California’s largest-in-the-nation death row are getting a reprieve from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who plans to sign an executive order Wednesday placing a moratorium on executions.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Sister Helen Prejean fought the death penalty—and won
We talk to Sister Helen about how “sneaky Jesus” changed her life forever.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Inside the Supreme Court’s latest case on cruelty and the death penalty
Newly appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh takes part in the argument over death-penalty methods that may cause “gruesome and brutal pain.”
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Supreme Court examines dementia, health issues in death penalty cases
The U.S. Supreme Court, no stranger to death penalty cases, is looking very narrowly at two aspects of capital punishment this term.
Posted inFaith, News
Top Vatican diplomat calls for universal abolition of death penalty
Abolishing the death penalty worldwide would reflect the brave and hope-filled belief that crime can be dealt with without capital punishment and that a criminal should be given the chance to reform, a top Vatican diplomat told world leaders.