"This decision reflects the extent to which the death penalty is racially biased and a broken policy," said Karen Clifton,

I haven't heard much from Jesus lately. But today I saw him, sketched in pencil by the hand of a mass murderer.

Just five states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas, accounted for all U.S. executions in 2016.

In this year's election, voters went against nearly all of the ballot initiatives backed by Catholic leaders and advocates, except referendums on minimum wage increases and gun control measures in four states.

Slowly, the death penalty is gaining ground again.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment.”