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Catholic Mobilizing Network Unveils New Website with a Refreshed Brand
Catholic Mobilizing Network has unveiled its new website—an exciting development for the organization which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. CMN’s Executive Director Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy said, “We are thrilled to share Catholic Mobilizing Network’s…
Pope Francis names death penalty abolition as a tangible expression of hope for the Jubilee Year 2025
On May 9, 2024, Pope Francis announced the Jubilee Year 2025 in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica. The theme for this Jubilee year: Pilgrims of Hope. Pope Francis announced the 2025 Jubilee Year in…
District Judge Recommends that Melissa Lucio’s Conviction be Overturned
On April 12, 2024, Judge Arturo Nelson, a district judge who presided over Melissa Lucio’s capital murder case, recommended to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that her conviction be overturned. The judge’s recommendation supports…
CMN Announces Winners of 2024 Poetry Contest
From left to right: Katie Painter, first place; Morgan Miles, second place; Krystia Ramirez, third place. Dozens of young adults ages 18-30 from all across the country entered poems in Catholic Mobilizing Network’s 2024 Justice…
Report Reveals Most Exonerations Last Year Were People of Color
The National Registry of Exonerations recently released its 2023 Annual Report. The organization, which is a project of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at University of California Irvine, the University of Michigan Law…
Louisiana House votes to allow executions by nitrogen gas and electrocution. Bill moves to Senate.
Louisiana has not executed any individual since 2010. Under the leadership of newly-elected Governor Jeff Landry, that might change. This week the Louisiana legislature met for a special session to consider over a dozen bills…
CMN co-hosts Black History Month event with Anthony Ray Hinton
Anthony Ray Hinton, author of The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice, spent 30 years on death row in Alabama for a crime he did not commit. Through the tireless efforts…
Kenny Smith Executed by Nitrogen Hypoxia in Alabama
Late in the evening on January 25, 2024, Alabama executed Kenneth “Kenny” Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first known execution using this method. Kenny was restrained to a gurney with an industrial-grade…
CMN Statement on the Impending Execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith
On January 25, Alabama plans to execute Kenneth “Kenny” Eugene Smith using the untested execution method of nitrogen hypoxia. Nitrogen hypoxia is a process in which an individual is fitted with a mask and forced…
UN Experts Decry Alabama’s Plan to Use Untested Execution Method
January 3, 2024 | The United Nations shared in a press release that a group of experts who volunteer their skills to advise the UN Human Rights Council on specific issues across the world were “alarmed”…
New Report Demonstrates America’s Continued Shift Away from the Death Penalty
December 1, 2023 | A new report by the Death Penalty Information Center demonstrates that the United States continues to shift away from the death penalty in 2023. Read the full report here. Majority of…
Alabama Set to Use Untested Nitrogen Gas for Execution
In January 2024, Alabama will try to execute Kenneth “Kenny” Eugene Smith for a second time. The state’s first attempt failed after corrections officials spent hours working unsuccessfully to set an intravenous line for his…