THE INTERVIEW: SISTER HELEN PREJEAN ON HER NEW BOOK, GETTING RID OF THE DEATH PENALTY AND GETTING JESUS “RIGHT”
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, talks to anti-death penalty compaigner Sister Helen Prejean about how she became involved in social justice, why she thinks the death penalty is on its way out and how she got to “bump into two popes along the way”…
ESSAY: WILL GRACE PREVAIL AS A TENNESSEE EXECUTION LOOMS?
Christian author and activist SHANE CLAIBORNE writes about a US death penalty case that’s become very personal to him…
ESSAY: HOW OUTRAGE FOR A DEATH ROW INMATE IN THE US MAY HAVE FLIPPED SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
In an article first published on Religion News Service, AMANDA TYLER, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, looks at recent US Supreme Court decisions involving the issue of religious liberty…
ESSAY: WHY US EVANGELICALS ARE APPLAUDING CALIFORNIA’S GOVERNOR FOR HALTING EXECUTIONS
HEATHER BEAUDOIN, senior manager of the EJUSA Evangelical Network, which promotes a justice system centred on redemption and healing and helped to launch Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, explains the group’s opposition to the death penalty…
Support growing for an “international instrument” to curb trade in capital punishment/torture devices, says Alliance for Torture-Free Trade
Support is growing for an “international instrument” aimed at curbing the trade in goods used for capital punishment and torture, according to the Alliance for Torture-Free Trade. Cecilia Malmstrom during the ministerial meeting of the Alliance for Torture-Free Trade. PICTURE: © European Union, 2018 . Formed last year as an initiative of Argentina, the EU and Mongolia, […]
ESSAY: CHRISTIANS ARE WHY THE DEATH PENALTY LIVES ON
SHANE CLAIBORNE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says Pope Francis’s declaration of the unacceptability of the death penalty couldn’t have come at a better time for the US given how some states are still fighting to keep it…
ESSAY: POPE FRANCIS PUSHES CATHOLICS TO ACTIVELY OPPOSE THE DEATH PENALTY
US Jesuit priest THOMAS REESE reflects on Pope Francis’ change to the catechism of the Catholic Church…
Pope Francis changes catechism to declare death penalty “inadmissible”
RNS Pope Francis has ordered a change to the catechism of the Catholic Church, altering existing language to read “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”. It vows that the church will work “with determination for its abolition worldwide”. Although Catholics have been generally opposed to […]
DEATH PENALTY: BIBLE BELT STATE WITH HIGHEST EXECUTION RATE IN US CONSIDERS DEATH PENALTY FLAWS
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, in an article first published by Religion News Service, reports on how Christians are grappling with the idea of the death penalty in the US state of Oklahoma…
KNOW IT ALL: DEATH PENALTY
DAVID ADAMS looks at some of facts concerning the use of the death penalty around the world…