Death row chaplain Rev Dale Recinella on procedural failings of system Death row chaplain Rev Dale Recinella has witnessed 18 executions - but there is one that stands out as particularly ghastly and ...

In addition to spending several days a week visiting inmates himself, Recinella has also trained other people to do prison ministry, and has acted as a witness for nearly two dozen executions so far.

Death row inmates in Florida's prisons refer to their 6-foot-by-9-foot cell as their "house," with some having lived in their "house" for 40 years -- longer than one Catholic lay chaplain said he has ...

In the book’s preface, Pope Francis underlined his strong opposition to capital punishment. Pope Francis addresses the faithful during second vespers on the feast of Our Lady of the Snows at the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Capital punishment promotes a deadly attitude of revenge and denies the possibility of change in the lives of incarcerated people, Pope Francis said. “The death penalty is in no ...