On October 10th, we commemorated World Day Against the Death Penalty, a day when people around the globe unite their voices to call for the abolition of capital punishment. Every year on this day, communities host prayer vigils, press conferences, and educational...
The state of Tennessee suspended all remaining executions for the year after Christa Pike survived two doses of the lethal-injection drug pentobarbital at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on Wednesday. Pike, who was convicted of murdering Colleen...
Curt Wichmer, MCC Legislative Counsel, recently sat down with Heidi Moore, Executive Director of Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty (MADP), to discuss the work of MADP, the current landscape of executions in Missouri, how to get involved, and judicial...
On July 26, Florida’s Catholic Bishops issued a pastoral letter on the death penalty. The bishops expressed concern over the increasing number of executions in the state. In 2025, Florida executed 19 death row individuals by lethal injection. One of them was an...
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said this week that the state should abolish the death penalty. “It is impossible today to make the case that the death penalty is a deterrent,” DeWine said at a June 16 press conference. The Republican governor called on Ohio lawmakers to...
During his apostolic journey to Spain, Pope Leo XIV delivered a historic speech to Spain’s Congress on Monday, urging elected officials to defend human dignity and protect life from conception to its natural end: “If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental...