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Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

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(The Conversation) — Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

Today, advocates in what I have called the “new abolitionism ” focus on the prospect of executing the innocent, racial discrimination in capital sentencing, and the financial costs associated ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

John Woolman (1720-1772) was an American Quaker who took an early stand against slavery.

My granddaughter and I went to Ripley, Ohio, to visit the Rankin house on the hill overlooking the river and Kentucky. John ...