
Pope Francis Pens Preface to US Death-Row Chaplain’s Book on Death Penalty
In the book’s preface, Pope Francis underlined his strong opposition to capital punishment.
In the book’s preface, Pope Francis underlined his strong opposition to capital punishment.
California technically has more prisoners on death row than any other state, but the state’s death penalty has been under moratorium since 2019 and has not been applied since 2006.
Attorney General William Barr, a Catholic, during July 2019 announced that executions of federal death-row inmates would resume for the first time since 2003.
The new federal lethal injection process will utilize one drug, pentobarbital, instead of the old three-drug process used in previous federal executions.
The New Hampshire legislature voted to repeal the death penalty this spring, but the bill was vetoed by Republican Governor Chris Sununu earlier this month.
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