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Lawyer Gave Up High Finance for Death-row Chaplaincy Saturday, May 14, 2011 WASHINGTON (CNS)—Dale Recinella played the financing game like a fiddle, even working through Christmas one year to secure the complex arrangements to finance a new stadium for football's Miami Dolphins.

Opposing Death Penalty Comes Down to God's Mercy Monday, November 01, 2010 WASHINGTON (CNS)—As the 2010 edition of Respect Life Month drew to a close, the issue of capital punishment was once again in the world spotlight as the Vatican called on Iraq not to execute former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.

Protests Mount, Vigils Planned to Oppose Kentucky Execution Friday, September 10, 2010 FRANKFORT, Ky. (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic bishops of Kentucky have asked Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear to commute the death sentence of Gregory Wilson, whose execution was scheduled for Sept. 16.

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LONDON (CNS)—A Scottish cardinal defended the 2009 decision to free the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing and said U.S. politicians should not try to interfere in the domestic affairs of his country. Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Cardinal Defends Lockerbie Bomber's Release Tuesday, August 10, 2010	INDIANAPOLIS (CNS)—Seventeen years, three months and three weeks. Saturday, January 02, 2010 Exonerated Death Row Inmate Never Gave up on God Saturday, January 02, 2010
MANCHESTER, N.H. (CNS)—As a commission studies whether New Hampshire should keep or abolish the death penalty, Manchester Auxiliary Bishop Francis J. Christian said in a hearing May 14 that Jesus' model of "reconciliation and rejection of all forms of violence" holds the key to the discussion. Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Bishop: Jesus' Nonviolence Should Be Guide on Executions Tuesday, May 18, 2010	MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (CNS)—About 20 death penalty opponents gathered in the bitter cold in Michigan City for a peaceful protest and to pray as the state of Indiana prepared for the first execution in Indiana since 2007. Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Death Penalty Opponents Protest Indiana Execution Tuesday, December 15, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNS)—The retirement this spring of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens leaves the court without its strongest critic of the death penalty. Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Supreme Court Will Lose Strongest Death Penalty Critic Wednesday, April 14, 2010	COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS)—When Ohio inmate Kenneth Biros was executed Dec. 8 with a one-drug lethal injection—the first person in the U.S. to be executed in this manner—the Ohio Catholic Conference did not specifically address the execution but instead reiterated the church's opposition to all means of capital punishment. Thursday, December 10, 2009 Execution Wrong No Matter the Method: Ohio Catholic Official Thursday, December 10, 2009

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Click the link to read the full document. Thursday, December 11, 2008 Capital Punishment Is Not the Answer From St. Anthony Messenger magazine	Click the link to read the full document. Thursday, December 11, 2008 A Prayer to Abolish the Death Penalty By Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
Click the link to read the full document. Thursday, December 11, 2008 The Bible and the Death Penalty From Scripture From Scratch, St. Anthony Messenger Press	Click the link to read the full document. Thursday, December 11, 2008 ‘A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice’ U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2000
Click the link to read the full document. Thursday, December 11, 2008 ‘The Culture of Life and the Death Penalty’ U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005	Click the link to read the full document. Thursday, December 11, 2008 Gospel of Life: Pope John Paul II’s Pro-Life Encyclical From Catholic Update, St. Anthony Messenger Press
Click the link to read the full document. Thursday, December 11, 2008 The Woman Behind Dead Man Walking From St. Anthony Messenger magazine