One of the Knights of Peter Claver’s newest councils is petitioning two governors to halt upcoming executions in Texas and Oklahoma, in support of similar calls from the Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN).
Dated August 9, the open letter from Sister Thea Bowman Council #406 in Orange County, California calls on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott—a Catholic—and Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt to “implement a fully Pro-Life position” concerning death row inmates Kosoul Chanthakoummane and James Coddington, scheduled to be killed on August 17 and 25, respectively.
“Our Lord asks us to defend life, therefore we ask you to do likewise.”
Signed by the council’s Grand Knight Gregory Herr, the letter was accompanied by a call on social media to support CMN’s petitions in support of both men, whose death sentences have long been regarded as products of a corrupt criminal justice system.
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