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The lethal injection room at California's San Quentin State Prison. / California Department of Corrections via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)Denver, Colo., Mar 7, 2023 / 08:40 am (CNA).A group of Catholic bishops will visit San Quentin Prison s death row inmates on Tuesday as inmates await transfer to other facilities in light of California s moratorium on executions.The visit is "simply extending a pastoral presence to those whose lives are on the line and on a time clock," Bishop Oscar Cantu of San Jose told CNA March 6.Cantu is scheduled to visit the prison with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, and Bishop Michael Barber of Oakland. The California Catholic Conference organized the March 7 visit.  In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on executions and ordered the closure of the execution chamber at San Quentin Prison, the Marin County facility near San Francisco that dates back to the 19th century.The state o

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