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Florida Bishops on the Death Penalty
 > Catholic Bishops: Every Life Has Dignity, August 17, 2009
 > Catholic Bishops: Neither Retribution Nor Deterrence Justify Death Penalty, May 11, 2009
> Catholic Bishops Ask Governor to Break the Cycle of Violence Perpetuated by State
   Sanctioned Executions, February 5, 2009
> Bishops Urge Mercy for Richard Henyard, Implore Governor Crist to End Executions,
   September 17, 2008
> Catholic Bishops of Florida Urge Governor Crist to Halt Executions, June 26, 2008

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Resources
 > The Death Penalty: Working for Consensus Against It
    PowerPoint presentation

> Death Penalty Facts and Catholic Church Teaching, September 2007

> Written Testimony to Commission on the Administration of Lethal Injection, February
   8, 2007, by Sheila Hopkins, Associate for Social Concerns/Respect Life

 > Bishop's Column on the Death Penalty
   Bishop Thomas Wenski, Diocese of Orlando, January 2006

 > Death Penalty Video (English) (Spanish)
 > Death Penalty Video Study Guide
FCC Position Paper
 > Death Penalty
  Links
Death Penalty Information Center, Washington, DC  
> www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/religion-and-death-penalty

Web page of Dale S. Recinella, Catholic Lay Chaplain, Florida's Death Row and Solitary Confinement
 > www.iwasinprison.org