Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Please join us on Monday, July 28 at 12:30pm-2:30pm EDT for the sixth webinar in this ongoing series on the abolition of the ...

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

Of course, capital punishment as an institution relies on judgment at every level: judgment about guilt, about fairness, about proportion, about pain and cruelty, about the possibility of redemption.

Letters to the Editor: Seeking capital punishment in CEO’s death exposes inequities in the justice system Luigi Mangione is accused in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive ...

In December 2024, as the term of President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, was coming to a close, the Catholics Mobilizing Network, which advocates against capital punishment, called on the ...

Nevertheless, the impact of the church is reflected in the fact that in the past 50 years, Catholic support for capital punishment fell more than it did among evangelicals, mainline Protestants ...