Tag: death penalty

Sister Helen Prejean, the Catholic nun and anti-death penalty activist whose story came to fame with the 1995 film”Dead Man Walking,” took the stand on Monday (May 11) in the penalty phase of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial. She said he is “genuinely sorry for what he did,” and told her how he felt about the suffering he caused to the bombing’s victims.

The parents of the boy who was the youngest to die in the attack on the Boston Marathon asked federal prosecutors to abandon their effort to sentence the bomber to death, in a statement on the front page of the Boston Globe on Friday (April 17).

Pope Francis celebrates a mass in Plebiscito square during his pastoral visit in Naples on March 21, 2015. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

The near death of Kelly Gissendaner this month reminded much of the country that our nation kills.

We were taking with us messages and information from many who opposed the laws mandating the state legal system to seek the death penalty for those convicted on the heinous crime of murder.

When Pat McCoy’s sister Kathy Lu McCoy was kidnapped, raped and murdered in 1974 by Harry Brooks, the family reeled from the violent nature of the crime, and struggled to accept what had happened.

The death penalty drama, "The Exonerated," will return Spokane the week before Thanksgiving. Hosted by the Gonzaga University Department of Theatre and Arts.