Referring to the right of defense, the pontiff adds in the audiovisual that “from a legal point of view, it is not necessary” because “society can effectively repress crime without definitively removing the possibility of redeeming himself from the person who committed it.”
“Always, in every sentence, there must be a window of hope. Capital punishment does not offer justice to the victims, but rather encourages revenge and avoids any possibility of undoing a possible judicial error,” says Francisco.
On the other hand, he explains, in the message “the death penalty is morally inadequate, it destroys the most important gift we have received: life” and reminds “let’s not forget that, until the last moment, a person can convert and change” .
Regarding Catholic doctrine, the pope recalls that “the death penalty is inadmissible. A practice that continues to be applied in 55 countries on several continents. The commandment ‘you shall not kill’ refers to both the innocent and the guilty.”
For this reason, the pope launches an appeal “to all people of good will who mobilize to achieve the abolition of the death penalty throughout the world” and asks them to pray “so that the death penalty, which threatens the inviolability and dignity of the person, be abolished in the laws of all the countries of the world”.
The Pope’s videos are an initiative that was born during this pontificate and that aims to spread Bergoglio’s monthly prayer intentions and is developed by the Pope’s World Prayer Network.
Source: Ambito
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