St. Joseph's Cathedral, Avarua St. Joseph's Cathedral, Avarua The St. Joseph's Cathedral is the name that receives a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church that is located in the city of Avarua to the north of the island of Rarotonga the largest and most populated island of the Cook Islands a dependent territory of New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean. The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Rarotonga ("Dioecesis Rarotongana") which has jurisdiction over the Cook Islands and Niue and which was created as an apostolic prefecture in 1922 being elevated to
Capital punishment in Rhode Island to 27. It was then appealed to Governor James Fenner, who reviewed the conviction but refused to intercede. John Gordon was hanged on February 14, 1845. It was the last execution in Rhode Island. On January 23, 1852, after seven years of discussion and debate concerning Gordon’s conviction and the merits of capital punishment, the Senate Committee on Education issued a report. The report contained literary references to the death penalty, and outlined U.S. and European practices regarding it. On February 11, 1852, the Rhode Island General Assembly abolished capital punishment. The death penalty was reinstated in 1872 for murders