Protect Life, Stop Execution

Another life is at stake in Florida.  There is nothing worse than losing life. When life is gone, nobody can recreate one.  It is not something that can be restored once you lost one.  The relationships, the memories, and the meaning that a life has created by every individual are uniquely formed from an individual basis.  Every life is sacred from womb to tomb.  

At the heart of the Catholic Church is valuing life.  We are all valuable in the eyes of God.  He was pleased when he created us in his own image (Gen 1:26-27).  Human dignity has been intrinsically imbedded in our very being from conception.  The dignity of life cannot be taken away by any of our actions. 

On March 31, 2026 a life will be executed for the murder of Teresa McAbee in 1987.  James Duckett was sentenced to death penalty.  There has been a doubt in James Duckett case due to unreliability of the statement of the key witness who recanted her statement.  Grace Gwendolyn, the key witness was instructed to cooperate and otherwise she would be in jail longer than if she supports what she was being told to do.  The testimony of Department of Justice that FBI Analyst who testified regarding the DNA analysis of the case was reported to be overstated and considered scientifically unsupported.  These are few reasons that highly call for abolition of Death Penalty.  Our system that wanted to penalize a human being, to take one's life away because one's life has been taken.  At all cost, the justice system that some of the States use is to put people including those who are with doubt to be in prison for years to wait for their execution costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation and legal fees.

The shift in the church's teachings on this have been there for years especially supported and advocated by late Pope Francis.  The faithful people have to go back to the humility and love of God for his creation.  We are created for love and anything that is oppose to love is against what God is calling us to do.  

Just as how God showed us his love by giving us His Son (Jn 3:16), we too are called to show love by giving our life to love.  Ephesians 4:31-32 NLT, we are asked to forgive one another:

"Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you." 

Please contact Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency urging them to grant clemency to James Duckett, and stop his execution.

Oppose an execution: https://catholicsmobilizing.org/our-work/death-penalty/executions/