Letters: Cost of death penalty should be deciding factor

Letters: Cost of death penalty should be deciding factor

I note the continued letters regarding the death penalty debate. For many years, I was ambivalent, weighing the urge for retributive justice vs. the rare but horrifying thought of executing an innocent person.

Q&A with Sr. Helen Prejean, on Pope Francis' fight against the death penalty

When Pope Francis ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert "the death penalty is inadmissible," it gave the church "official teachings so we couldn't have bishops going against it," said St. Joseph Sr. Helen Prejean.