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BLOOMINGTON - After almost two decades without a federal execution in the United States, President Donald Trump’s Attorney General William Barr instructed the U.S. Justice Department to resume executions, which began in July of 2020. By the end of Trump’s presidency, 13 prisoners were ...
WASHINGTON — Catholic leaders are encouraging people of faith to get involved in lobbying efforts against capital punishment and to discuss ...
President Joe Biden had campaigned on a promise to end the federal death penalty
Providence Sr. Barbara Battista, holds a photo taken during her last visit with Keith Dwayne Nelson, who was executed at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, Aug. 28, 2020. Battista was Nelson's spiritual adviser and was present as he was executed. (AP/Michael Conroy) Sr. Barbara Battista wasn't in prison ministry and didn't visit the men incarcerated at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, like other Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods. But she was outspoken, and that's what Keith Dwayne Nelson wanted. It was July 2020, and Nelson wa...
Related Stories It was almost as if the administration was trying to set a perverse new benchmark in the “Guinness Book of World Records.” It carried out more executions in six months than any other administration had in six decades. These government killings gave new meaning to Operation Warp Speed: Instead of taking the necessary measures to protect millions of Americans from the physical and economic ravages of COVID-19, the “pro-life” federal government put work into carrying out 13 executions. I did not know the others who were executed well enough — Daniel Lewis Lee, We...