“Cities for Life” was started in 2002 by the Community of Sant’ Egidio, a lay Catholic association and global leader in death penalty abolition. Each year on November 30, an estimated 2,000 cities in more than 80 countries celebrate the first abolition of the death penalty by a civil state, decreed by the Grand Duchy…
“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” -the late Congressman John…
When I wrote to you on World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, I shared the horrifying reality that Florida led the nation in the number of executions, killing six men in 2023. Sadly, just before midnight on that same day, Texas executed Jedidiah Murphy, despite two lower courts granting a stay. The…
