Posted on 12/04/2020 7:43:20 PM PST by marshmallow
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A move by the Department of Justice to expand how it carries out federal death sentences — to include electrocution, gas or firing squads along with lethal injections –was sharply criticized by Catholic anti-death penalty activists.
“The administration’s eleventh-hour push to bring back firing squads and institute additional methods of execution flies in the face of a country that is turning away from the practice of capital punishment,” said Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, executive director of Catholic Mobilizing Network, who called the move “yet another blatant affront to the dignity of life.”
On Nov. 27, the Justice Department published a final rule change, effective Dec. 24, to add to the execution methods it uses for federal death sentences, permitting it to use “any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed.”
The proposed amendment was announced in August and posted on the Federal Register for comments. It calls for alternative means for federal executions if the lethal injection drug is not available in the state where the defendant is given the death sentence.
It also suggests that if the state where the crime occurred does not permit death sentences, a judge can designate another state with those laws and utilize their facilities to carry out the execution.
Among the 30 states that still use the death penalty, lethal injection is the primary execution method, but some states also use nitrogen gas, electrocution or a firing squad, if a lethal injection is unavailable.
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Shouldn’t they be more worried about cleaning out the pedos in their ranks?
They are the pedos.
Who cares what these homosexual predators have to say about ANYTHING?
Would they be okay will nailing them up to a pole?
Well you know its a good thing when they are upset
No problems though with the Catholic carnage in Africa and the middle east.
Jesus had to suffer crucifixion, and he was sinless.
All forms of capital punishment are on the table for the guilty.
I believe the marksmen should be instructed to shoot the guts of the sentenced. They didn’t earn their status by being nice guys - let them suffer to see how their victims felt.
Glad to see that these fools care so much about their parishioners who are getting attacked, raped, and killed.
So much for leftist Catholic concerns for the “people”. That’s what you get when you elect a Marxist as the Pope. More crime, less hope. More crime, more dope. More Marxism, less Christianity.
I’m Jewish and I’m appalled that this is happening. Two of my favorite Catholic church leaders were Cardinal Mindzenty (Hungary, who I met in person) and the warrior-Cardinal of New York City whose name I cannot correctly recall (tall, handsome, pro-America), who I also talked with.
I also have to include Bishop Vincent Fulton Sheen, a great man of faith and patriotism. He was inspirational to all good people.
We need good men and women of all faiths to help defend America, freedom of religion, and the concept of honesty.
The Catholic church went woke and now it is going broke.
JoMa
Right; they are OK with killing some people but not others.
The Church in the US has become a joke; it is a declining shadow of itself engaged in a fire sale of unused property assets as it winds down operations.
“said Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, executive director of Catholic Mobilizing Network”
At least it doesn’t sound like a front name for a Democratic Party PAC... (/s)
These PACs are the last lay Catholics even pretending the current Pope matters.
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