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...
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...
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...
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 Missouri House bill to abolish the death penalty finally received a committee hearing, and Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski attended on behalf of the Missouri bishops to offer testimony in support. House Bill 2153, sponsored by Rep. Jim Murphy, a...
While U.S. public opinion is shifting against the use of the death penalty, there was a near 100% increase in executions in 2025. The Death Penalty Information Center reported that there were 48 prisoner executions in 2025, up from 25 prisoner...
A recent study published by EWTN and RealClear Opinion Research revealed that a majority of American Catholics support the death penalty for convicted murderers and the broad-scale deportation of immigrants who are in the United States illegally....
In 2024, there were 25 people executed in the United States. In 2025, there have already been 44 executions, and three more are scheduled this month. To combat this rise, Catholics and pro-life conservatives joined a broad coalition of more than...
Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of prisoners on death row. More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the death penalty’s re-legalization by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976. The state of Texas has...
At 6 p.m. on October 14, 2025, the state of Missouri executed Lance Shockley for the murder of Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham. In his final public statement, Shockley said, “So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will...