Awareness on Death Penalty, Vigils, and Prayer

Join the vigils related to the upcoming executions.  If you have not supported yet this cause, this is an invitation to look into the story.  You may still be thinking whether to call Governor Abbott and the Board of Pardon and Parole, give yourself a space for the innocent man.   Read all the recent evidences.  People can have biases, and what is presented now may bring the truth to the case.  We did not know a lot of the sciences that are being used in crimes and health these days such as DNA, genetic genealogy, and even medicines which were not known to be deadly to infants and human beings are being discovered that need to be looked into.  How are we cultivating truth, peace, and justice?

Support stopping execution to Mr. Robert Roberson.  Support ending death penalty.  

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Vigils – TCADP
Catholic Mobilizing Network: Support stopping of execution of Mr. Roberson

Advocacy to stop execution of Mr. Robert Roberson and abolish death penalty was held on October 10, 2024.  The World Day Against Death Penalty has been promoted every October 10.  It is being advvocated by various Human Rights organizations, Innocence Project, Texas Coalition Against Death Penalty, Catholic Mobilizing Network, etc.   The JPIC team, in collaboration with TCADP and Catholic Mobilizing Network talked to the students and staff of the UIW Student Engagement to support the cause.  

About 200 exonerees who had to live their lives as prisoners on death row, and yet they have been wrongfully convicted for the crimes that they had not committed.   Apart from the innocent victims of death penalty, there is a moral concerns that we need to ask ourselves if it is worth keeping this law on specific crimes.  While the promoters of the stopping of execution for people in death row apart from those who work in the justice system stating that this punishment only encourages revenge.  According to Bryan Stevenson, The prisoners deserve but do we deserve to kill.  It is more fitting that the abolishment needs to happen to avoid expenses in courts and the time being used for appeals intead of having fatal harm done to someone and without anyway to reverse it.

It is an invitation to systematically end something that is not working and not able to sustain our common sense of human dignity.  The systemic end of death penalty means that we restore the dignity of all people.  Catechism 2267 has been revised so as to recognize the dignity of every people.  This creates one more reason to consider petitioning the state officials on this cause.  This saves people grief on both sides.  The healing does not start unless we create a space for restorative justice, forgiveness, reconciliation, and healing.

More on the Catechism 2267: New revision of number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty – Rescriptum “ex Audentia SS.mi”