death penalty
Can faithful Catholics vote for President Trump?
By John Gehring — August 9, 2019
(RNS) — The nation's Catholic bishops include racist behavior among the sins that 'may legitimately disqualify a candidate from receiving support.'
Death penalty decision answers lingering questions about how Barr’s faith affects his politics
By Charles C. Camosy — July 26, 2019
(RNS) — The worry that Barr might impose his private religious views on federal matters has apparently been overblown.
Will grace prevail as Tennessee execution looms?
By Shane Claiborne — May 9, 2019
(RNS) — The daughter of Don Johnson has taken up his case not only to save his life, but to set herself free from the violence that has kept her prisoner.
Why evangelicals are applauding California’s governor for halting executions
By Heather Beaudoin — March 15, 2019
(RNS) — As evangelicals, we are taught to examine the systems around us and to call out those that are unfair and unjust. The death penalty is exactly that. It is arbitrary, biased and immoral.
The Jewish answer to how to punish the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter
By Beth Kissileff — February 27, 2019
PITTSBURGH (RNS) — I plan to avenge the attack on my husband's synagogue and our community by celebrating our lives as Jews.
Absent an imam, Domineque Ray’s execution by Alabama disenfranchises Muslims
By Megan Goodwin — February 13, 2019
(RNS) — The American legal system's anti-Islam problem might be more accurately seen as a pro-Christianity problem.
Supreme Court: Execution of Muslim inmate can proceed
By The Associated Press — February 7, 2019
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — The inmate argued that Alabama's execution procedure favors Christian inmates because a Christian chaplain employed by the prison typically remains in the execution chamber during a lethal injection.
Christians can’t allow the Bible Belt to be the ‘death belt’
By Shane Claiborne — November 1, 2018
(RNS) — Would Tennessee's governor allow a man to be executed this week if he were to come to Friday prayers on death row?
Tennessee carries out its 1st execution in nearly a decade
By Jonathan Mattise — August 10, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The execution comes a week after Pope Francis revealed new Catholic church teaching that deems the death penalty "inadmissible" under all circumstances.
Death penalty decree could be quandary for US politicians
By Amy Forliti — August 7, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The question of whether or not Catholic political and judicial leaders would be sinning if they continue to support the death penalty is up for interpretation.
Shane Claiborne: Christians are why the death penalty lives on
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — August 6, 2018
(RNS) — Wherever Christians are most concentrated in America is where the death penalty has flourished.
Pope Francis pushes Catholics to actively oppose the death penalty
By Thomas Reese — August 3, 2018
(RNS) — The pope's recent change to the catechism is likely to face fierce opposition in the U.S., where 54 percent of the public — and 53 percent of Catholics — support capital punishment.
Francis kills the death penalty for Roman Catholicism
By Mark Silk — August 2, 2018
And made it a central concern for the church's pro-life activism.
Pope Francis changes catechism to declare death penalty ‘inadmissible’
By Jack Jenkins — August 2, 2018
(RNS) — A vocal opponent of the death penalty, Francis also ordered a change to say the church will work 'with determination for its abolition worldwide.'
Mennonite investigator will testify in death penalty case
By Associated Press — March 11, 2018
(AP) — Greta Lindecrantz has been jailed for nearly two weeks.
