Recently, Catholic advocates like you urged President Biden to commute the death sentences of the 40 people who were on federal death row. Thanks in large part to those efforts, President Biden commuted 37 of those death sentences on December 23rd. As Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the USCCB, said, “These commutations are a significant step in advancing the cause of human dignity in our nation.” Our collective voice has made a difference!

Please take a moment to thank President Biden for promoting human dignity by sparing 37 lives from execution and urge him to commute the three remaining federal death sentences. 

We know more work remains in eliminating the use of the death penalty. Ahead of the World Day of Peace on January 1, the Holy Father stated, “…I would like once more to propose a concrete gesture that can help foster the culture of life, namely the elimination of the death penalty in all nations. This penalty not only compromises the inviolability of life but eliminates every human hope of forgiveness and rehabilitation.” 

For more information on the Catholic bishops’ perspective on the death penalty, please visit this page.