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'It's a little bit of light in the darkness...' Local faith leader reacts to halt of the federal death penalty

Sister Barbara Battista says the halt of federal executions is long overdue.
Posted: Jul 2, 2021 6:46 PM
Posted By: Kit Hanley
VIGO COUNTY, IND. (WTHI) - In a major announcement Thursday night, The Justice Department put a hold on federal executions.
As you may already know-Terre Haute is home to the only federal death chamber.
Sister Barbara Battista from Sisters of Providence finds hope in this ruling but recognizes there s still a lot of work to be done.
It s a little bit of light in the darkness, and yet we have a long way to go, Battista said.
Battista has been a leader in the fight to abolish the death penalty. She worked with many of the inmates who were put to death during 2020. One of the inmates she worked with was executed in the final days of Trump s presidency. ....

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Jul 2, 2021 | 4:26 PM
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) The Justice Department on Thursday halted federal executions while a review of its policies and procedures is pending. While local anti-death penalty advocates said the moratorium offers “a little bit of light,” they are still hoping for more.
“We’re working for the death penalty to be abolished, totally eliminated,” Sister Barbara Battista of the Sisters of Providence said. “That would mean no further prosecutions with the death penalty as a possible sentence; that would mean tearing down death chambers around the country. So that’s what we work for.” ....

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With 40 inmates still on federal death row, this local organization is working to connect them with their families

With 40 inmates still on federal death row, this local organization is working to connect them with their families
The Sisters of Providence started the Death Row Visitation Project to help families get to see their loved ones face to face while awaiting execution.
Posted: Jun 28, 2021 7:07 PM
Updated: Jun 29, 2021 6:40 AM
Posted By: Kit Hanley
VIGO COUNTY, Ind. (WTHI) - A local organization is working to help inmates on death row after several federal executions took place last year.
The Sisters of Providence started the Death Row Visitation Project to help families get to see their loved ones face to face while awaiting execution. ....

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Providence sister talks about the grief and gift of accompanying two men to federal execution

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 was scheduled to be the fifth person executed in a spree of 13 carried out by President Donald Trump and his attorney general, William Barr, between July 14, 2020, and Jan. 16, 2021. ....

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[Letter from Terre Haute] The Lightning Farm, By Caroline Lester

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The sole federal execution chamber in the United States is in a place called Terre Haute the high ground in far western Indiana, named for a swath of land that rises above the nearby Wabash River. The surrounding country is in fact flat and wide, precipitously exposed to the sky.
The prison complex south of downtown via Route 150, past the dome and bell tower of the Vigo County courthouse, and after the Tire Barn on Spring Hill Road comprises the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution and the maximum-security U.S. Penitentiary, the home of the Special Confinement Unit: death row and the death house, a low, windowless building of dark-red brick on the northern edge of the grounds. ....

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