Law & Court
NEWS STORY: Cult Awareness Network files under Chapter 7 of bankruptcy code
By Adelle M. Banks — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) _ Plagued by numerous lawsuits from religious groups, the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) filed under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code Thursday (June 21) after the organization’s attempts to reorganize were denied by a federal bankruptcy judge, its executive director said. Cynthia Kisser, who runs the network from […]
NEWS STORY: Cult Awareness Network files under Chapter 7 of bankruptcy code
By Adelle M. Banks — June 22, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (UNDATED) _ Plagued by numerous lawsuits from religious groups, the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) filed under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code Thursday (June 21) after the organization’s attempts to reorganize were denied by a federal bankruptcy judge, its executive director said. Cynthia Kisser, who runs the network from […]
NEWS STORY: Ruling could boost religion defense in drug cases
By RNS Blog Editor — May 31, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO (RNS)-An unusual federal appeals court ruling in a drug smuggling case allows Rastafarians to argue that they should legally be able to use marijuana for religious reasons. The ruling from the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco orders a Montana federal judge to retry drug […]
NEWS FEATURE: Death penalty divides those in pulpit and pews
By Cathleen Falsani — May 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service CHICAGO (RNS)-In the 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, a bitterly emotional debate has preceded each of the 328 executions that have occurred in prisons around the country. The issue: Is killing a morally defensible punishment for murder? It is a question no less contentious […]
Two families, a dark night, a prison execution
By Bruce Nolan — March 7, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service ANGOLA, La. (RNS)-The Harveys arrived first last Thursday, having driven up the 120 miles from Mandeville, La., in their blue pickup. They pulled off the highway where it ended at the prison gates. Nearby, a dozen guards on beefed-up execution duty stomped about to keep warm in the soaking cold. […]
TOP STORY: JIM BAKKER: Televangelist takes to the pulpit in wake of conviction
By Bruce Nolan — February 27, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS (RNS)-Former televangelist Jim Bakker, bathed in a standing ovation from a nearly full church Sunday (Feb. 25), preached a new gospel of humility he said he learned in prison. But Bakker, convicted in 1989 for bilking 116,000 followers out of nearly $158 million, did not acknowledge whether a […]
TOP STORY: RELIGION AND POPULAR CULTURE: `Too much pain here,’ says author of death penalty bo
By Bruce Nolan — January 17, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (RNS)-As a child in the early 1950s, Helen Prejean drifted off to sleep bathed in the security of a middle-class Catholic home, lulled by the sound of her parents murmuring the rosary.”Catholicism,”she said,”was in our DNA.” As a nun 30 years later, her faith, profoundly reshaped, led her to live […]
COMMENTARY: The perp and the prosecutor were one and the same
By RNS Blog Editor — January 1, 1996
c. 1996 Religion News Service (Samuel K. Atchison is an ordained minister who has worked as a policy analyst and social worker to the homeless. He currently is a prison chaplain in Trenton, N.J.) UNDATED _ The recent fall and ultimate demise of Nicholas Bissell Jr. bear a terrible irony: He became what he hated. […]
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