The Catholic Church is launching a major new campaign to end the death penalty here in the United States. Later today, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Archbishop of Washington, will formally announce the start of the Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty. The campaign comes 25 years after American Bishops issued their first major statement against capitol punishment. Since 1976, 956 people have been executed in the United States. Meanwhile 119 death row inmates have been exonerated.