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Catholic Church in Holy Land rejects death penalty, calls for mercy and human dignity
Amid growing controversy over the Israeli Knesset’s recent approval of a law permitting the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, the…
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Archbishop Coakley mourns execution of Oklahoma murderer, urges prayers for end to death penalty
Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley this week lamented the state’s execution of convicted murderer Kendrick Simpson, urging prayers for an…
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Catholic News - Americas
Catholics form coalition opposed to the death penalty amid execution surge
Sister Helen Prejean is an anti-death-penalty advocate. / Credit: Don LaVange via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 3, 2025…
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Catholic News - Americas
Tennessee Catholic bishops call for an end to the death penalty
null / Credit: felipe caparros/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 11, 2025 / 13:44 pm (CNA). Tennessee’s Catholic bishops issued a plea…
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Catholic News - Americas
Utah seeks death penalty for Tyler Robinson in Charlie Kirk murder
Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and a vocal evangelical Christian who was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025,…
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Catholic News - Pope
Trump backs death penalty in all Washington, DC, murder cases; Catholic group objects
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump has called for the death penalty for capital crimes in the…
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Catholic News - Americas
Where does your state stand on the death penalty?
null / Credit: felipe caparros/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 30, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). The United States is seeing the…
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Catholic News - Pope
Pakistan softens death penalty laws to keep EU trade, preserves blasphemy statutes
Pakistan minority rights campaigners protest the sentencing of a Christian man to death for sharing an allegedly blasphemous TikTok post…
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Catholic News - Pope
Trump signs pro-death penalty order, calls capital punishment an ‘essential tool’
null / Credit: felipe caparros/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 21, 2025 / 17:30 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump on Monday signed…
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Catholic News - Pope
Supreme Court hears oral arguments in consequential Oklahoma death penalty case
Anti-death penalty activists, including members of MoveOn.org and other advocacy groups, rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent the…
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