executions
High court: States must allow prayer, touch in executions
By Jessica Gresko — March 25, 2022
(AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion also urged states to think about the religious needs of inmates in the context of executions and proactively adopt policies.
Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest mass execution
By Jon Gambrell — March 14, 2022
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An announcement by Saudi state television described those executed as having 'followed the footsteps of Satan' in carrying out their crimes.
Shane Claiborne: Christians are why the death penalty lives on
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — August 6, 2018
(RNS) — Wherever Christians are most concentrated in America is where the death penalty has flourished.
Stop the execution of Jeff Wood, in the name of Jesus
By Shane Claiborne — August 18, 2016
(RNS) When it comes to executions in America, we are not killing the worst of the worst; we are killing the poorest of the poor.
Islamic State refugees grow disgruntled: ‘We loved them so much’
By Michael Kaplan — February 26, 2015
SANLIURFA, Turkey (RNS) Little is known about how the Islamic State group is viewed by those living under its thumb. But a steady stream of refugees settling in southern Turkey offers a peek into life in the areas the militants control.
Executions are down and abolition may not be far behind (COMMENTARY)
By Shane Claiborne — February 4, 2015
(RNS) The death penalty is in critical condition. Might 2015 be a year of abolition?
Supreme Court seems increasingly wary on death penalty
By Richard Wolf — December 3, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) On top of drug protocols, developmental disabilities and lawyers' mistakes, justices must decide if mental illness should be a reason to keep prisoners such as Scott Panetti alive. An appellate court gave him last-minute reprieve.
COMMENTARY: A pastor’s solitary march to end an injustice
By Shane Claiborne — June 18, 2014
(RNS) It’s not just liberals anymore, but all sorts of reasonable people (including conservative faith leaders), who are convinced that we can do better than this as a country -- and we must.
Botched execution could slam brakes on death penalty
By Gregg Zoroya — May 1, 2014
(RNS) Richard Dieter, executive director of the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, said the Oklahoma case would add momentum to efforts to halt lethal injection until the process is better understood and there is more transparency to what states are trying to do.
Death penalty grows rarer in U.S.
By Lauren Markoe — December 18, 2012
(RNS) Though states put the same number of people to death this year as last, an anti-death penalty group says several other indicators show capital punishment is on the wane. By Lauren Markoe.
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