Francisco and the horror of the death penalty, “an inhuman and insulting scale”

Giada Aquilaino – Vatican City

In light of the Bible, the Church teaches that “the death penalty is always unacceptable because it affects the inability and dignity of a person.” During the twelve years of Pontef Francisco, the commitment to cancel this “cruel” form of punishment and inhuman practice remained fixed. It was in August 2018 when the balance, signed by the Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrier, then the governor of the faith group of faith, informed the Pope to reform point 2267 of the Christian education of the Catholic Church. The church, which was emphasized at the same time, is committed to “design” for complete removal around the world.

Humiliation

Pope Bergolio has already spoken about it, as in October 2017. In his speech to the participants in a meeting organized by the Pontifical Council to enhance the new evangelization, he stressed: “We must strongly emphasize that the death penalty is an inhumane procedure, in any of its personal forms.” Human life has repeated “to be always sacred in the eyes of the Creator” and God is the only one “in the end” is the judge and the guarantor. “There is no man, not even the killer, who loses his personal dignity at all,” because the Lord “expects the son to return, knowing that he worked badly, asks for forgiveness and begins a new life.” Thus, the focus that aims to indicate that no one can be special not only for life, but also for the possibility of moral and existential redemption.

The death penalty, neither a human nor a Christian

Pope Francis did not stop, such as the work of the Holy See. For example, specifically from the “latter”, the prisoners of Regeina Kwaili in Rome, on the holy Thursday of 2018, were fulfilled when breathing came “hope”, when hope was increasing, “he said:” The death penalty is not human or Christian. Each penalty, must be open to hope, to reintegrate. ”In the same year, which gathered with the ICRC’s delegation against the death penalty, the Holy Father stressed that the United Nations decisions regarding the endowment regarding the use of the death penalty, with the aim of“ suspending ”the application of the punishable capital.

Prayer for the death penalty

At the end of last year, and therefore almost at the end of Pontvot, after the angel’s prayer in the seriousness of the pure pregnancy, Francisco once again urged the believers: “I have reached the heart to all ask you to pray for the inmates in the United States who are in the corridor of death,” wishing, I hope they are in deficit. A few days later, at the eve of Christmas and the opening of the jubilee, then the head of the White House, Joe Biden, announced that seventy men and women convicted of death will see a punishment for the permanent chain. For them, Francisco asked the Lord to “save them from death.