Pope Francis: Former popes ignored mercy in using ‘inhuman’ death penalty

[penitent60]

There is in Australia a man whose name I shall not speak who murdered 35 people and is sentenced to 35 life sentences and 1000 yrs. I wonder if he feels it would have been better to be killed, but he did steal a lot of lives that were not his to take. Murder is abomination .....life is God given, it isn't for us to determine a life or the ending of a life.  The thread also has moved onto slavery, also an abomination in my opinion, all men are created equal in the sight of God, why should then man determine if he is better on some nonsensical idea of caste,ethnicity,gender or economic strata.  Just my penny's worth.

[KnightofChrist]

Keep in mind people Pope Francis also condemned life in prison not just putting murderers to death.

“the Magisterium of the Church understands that life imprisonment, which removes the possibility of moral and existential redemption, for the benefit of the condemned and for the community, is a form of the death penalty in disguise.” - Pope Francis

So if someone murders a group of children, not only can we not put that person to death for those crimes, according to Pope Francis, we cannot put that person in prison for life either. Strange, very strange.

Edited February 3, 2020 by KnightofChrist