Catholic Judges in Capital Cases Amy Coney Barrett, Notre Dame Law School John H. Garvey Document Type Article Publication Date 1998 Publication Information 81 Marq. L. Rev. 303 (1997-1998) Abstract The Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty places Catholic judges in a moral and legal bind. While these judges are obliged by oath, professional commitment, and the demands of citizenship to enforce the death penalty, they are also obliged to adhere to their church's teaching on moral matters. Although the legal system has a solution for this dilemma by allowing the recusal of judges whose convictions keep them from...