Catholics Come Together to Fight Death Penalty
America's Roman Catholic bishops and their flock of 65 million are in new accord on a hot-button social issue: opposition to the death penalty. The U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops will roll out a banner statement for the national "Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty" at the semi-annual gathering of nearly 300 bishops beginning Monday in Washington, D.C.New survey research shows Catholics are turning away from support for the death penalty, although not necessarily because the church says they should.
Read the USA Today article.
Posted by beth at 09:49 AM
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I am a Roman Catholic in Kansas. I have a son on death-row in North Carolina. He has been there for 8 years. He was given the death penlty for being with someone he had met only afew weeks before. He said that the man just went crazy and held him at gun point and made him help kiddnap a cab driver. He said that he was not there at the time of the murder. When the police came after them the other man shot himself. They had proof that the other man commited the murder. My son Jamey Cheek age 29 in on his last appeal. How can I as a disable person on low income help put a end to death-row that is killing people who may not be guilty of the crimes their put in there for.
God Bless all Who are out there working on this.
Carla Schwab
620 Osage St.
Apt. C-10
Augusta KS 67010
Posted by: Carla Schwab at November 10, 2005 11:47 AM
