Can Catholic judges, consistently with their faith, participate in death penalty cases? Faithful Catholics who...
Contributor Information
Ryan Proctor
Associate, Jones Day
Biography
Ryan Proctor is currently an associate at Jones Day in Washington, DC. He received his B.A. and M.A. in classics from Yale cum laude, graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, and clerked for the Honorable Joan L. Larsen of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. While in law school, he published the note Catholic Judges Have No Obligation to Recuse Themselves in Capital Cases, 42 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 309 (2019).
Catholic Judges and the Death Penalty
Ryan Proctor
Can Catholic judges, consistently with their faith, participate in death penalty cases? Faithful Catholics who...