December 13, 2022 | Outgoing Oregon Governor Kate Brown has commuted the sentences of all 17 individuals on the state’s death row. Governor Brown, who has granted more commutations or pardons than all of Oregon’s governors…
UPDATE Dec. 15, 2022 | A historic 125 nations voted “yes” on the bi-annual United Nations resolution calling for a universal moratorium on the death penalty. The U.S. maintained its historical “no” vote, despite being…
Nov. 22, 2022 | All Alabama executions have been put on hold until a thorough review can be conducted regarding the state’s lethal injection protocol. Governor Kay Ivey issued this order following the failed execution…
This November, Pope Francis made a historic papal visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain. During his first formal address to the country, the Holy Father condemned Bahrain’s use of the death penalty, which has increased…
UPDATE Nov. 29, 2022 | Five the six executions scheduled for November 2022 were carried out: Tracy Beatty in Texas on Nov. 9; Murray Hooper in Arizona on Nov. 16; Stephen Barbee in Texas on…
October 13, 2022 | Amid a 25-person execution spree in Oklahoma, a new report released by the Death Penalty Information Center paints a troubling picture of the state’s capital punishment system. Deeply Rooted: How Racial…
October 11, 2022 | On the annual World Day Against the Death Penalty, more than 200 people joined Catholic Mobilizing Network for the Justice Reimagined Awards & Celebration to celebrate three anti-death penalty champions and staunch…
Pope Francis Calls For the Global Abolition of the Death Penalty (Washington, DC) August 31, 2022 | As part of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, Pope Francis has designated his monthly prayer intention for September to…
This spring, young Catholics from across the United States wrote poems that grappled with the horror of capital punishment and a belief that every person should be treated with dignity as part of CMN’s inaugural Justice…
This is an evolving situation that CMN is monitoring closely. Catholic Mobilizing Network and the Oklahoma Conference of Catholic Bishops are encouraging Catholic clergy and vowed religious to add their names to a faith leader…
April 25, 2022 | CMN Executive Director Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy offers the following statement regarding the recent stay of execution for Melissa Lucio issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. “We give thanks to God…
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