By Jonah McKeown Denver Newsroom, Aug 25, 2020: Catholics are joining Native American leaders in calling for mercy for a Navajo man who is sentenced to die in a federal execution this week. The Navajo Nation objects to the execution. Lezmond Mitchell, 38, who committed a double murder in 2001Continue Reading
Vatican Cit: Pope Francis called Wednesday for categoric opposition to capital punishment to be written into an update of the most important guide to Catholic teaching. His comments, which will be controversial with many fundamentalist Christians and some Catholics, came in a speech to clerics attending a conference in RomeContinue Reading
Saudi Arabia has executed a member of the royal family for murder in a rare case involving one of the thousands of members of the House of Saud. Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir was put to death in the capital, Riyadh, for shooting dead Adel al-Mahemid, a Saudi, during aContinue Reading
The prisoners were executed in different jails of Punjab and Balochistan provinceContinue Reading