In 2003, the Clinton Franciscans took a formal, corporate public stand against the death penalty.
The Sisters of St. Francis, Clinton, Iowa, Associates and Sojourners oppose the death penalty and call for its abolition.

In furtherance of this position:

  • We support legislative and other efforts to abolish the death penalty.
  • We support efforts promoting a moratorium on use of the death penalty and a study of its implementation.
  • We support legislative efforts to restrict its application, particularly in cases of minors, and persons who are mentally retarded and mentally ill.
  • We oppose legislation to broaden or reinstate the death penalty.
  • Recognizing the human agony and suffering involved, we support the families of the victims and of those on death row and their families in their journeys of grief, repentance, healing, forgiveness, reconciliation, and / or quest for exoneration

Since that time, we have publicized state executions, asking our friends to pray with us for those on death row, for their victims, for the families and for the citizens whose states inflict the death penalty. We also encourage residents of those states to write their legislators and otherwise work to change the death penalty laws.





Scheduled for Execution (PRAYER REQUESTS):

There are NO scheduled executions for the coming week.  Please continue to keep all death row inmates in prayer.

 
   


Links to Abolitionist Organizations

ANTI-DEATH PENALTY LINKS
Death Penalty Focus. DPF President and actor Mike Farrell has taken a leading role at abolition conferences and execution vigils.
Death Penalty Information Center Best source of data about the death penalty.
Amnesty International's program to abolish the death penalty.
Campaign to End the Death Penalty. National organization for political opposition to the death penalty.
The ACLU's campaign to abolish the death penalty.


SENTENCING AND RECONCILIATION
Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation.
The Sentencing Project


RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL ORGANIZATIONS
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
The Dalai Lama's Message Supporting the Moratorium on the Death Penalty.
American Friends Service Committee (Quakers).
Catholics Against Capital Punishment
United Methodists Against the Death Penalty.
Presbyterian General Assemblies Statements in Opposition to the Death Penalty.
Unitarian Universalists Against the Death Penalty.
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty.
urbanPEACE: putting peace into practice
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Birken Forest Monastery
Abhayagiri Monastery

 

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