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Pope Leo declares death penalty ‘inadmissible’ as his native US plans to livestream execution
The pope cited Catholic teaching that 10 million detainees can be protected without executions, as U.S. officials face criticism over a planned broadcast.
- On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV declared capital punishment "inadmissible" as the United States announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.
- The Defense Department announced Thursday that Hasan, convicted of a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood that killed 13 people and wounded 32, will be executed by firing squad.
- Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin called the planned livestream "truly incomprehensible," while Archbishop Paul Coakley expressed "shock" at the Pentagon's "barbaric" plans.
- Pope Leo XIV posted quoting revised Catholic teaching that capital punishment attacks human dignity; the Church's position is one of "total opposition" to the practice.
- Like Pope Francis before him, Leo has prioritized prison visits to emphasize inmate dignity and the possibility of redemption, maintaining that there is always hope.
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Pope Leo XIV has called the death penalty “inadmissible” this Saturday because, as he has denounced, it violates the dignity of the person and completely deprives the condemned of the possibility of redemption.
·Madison, United States
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The Catholic Church raises its voice in front of the Pentagon's decision to transform the execution of a condemned to death into a public spectacle (even without mentioning the White House directly)
·Rome, Italy
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Pope Leo XIV calls death penalty attack on human dignity as US plans to livestream execution
Pope Leo XIV has declared the death penalty an attack on human dignity as the United States faces growing backlash over plans to livestream the execution of a former Army psychiatrist by firing squad.The American-born pope made the...
·Karachi, Pakistan
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