Pope Francis yesterday called for all nations to eliminate the death penalty in his message for the 2025 Message for the World Day of Peace.
He said capital punishment “not only compromises the inviolability of life but eliminates every human hope of forgiveness and rehabilitation".
On Sunday, during his Angelus, the Pope made a specific appeal to America.
He said: “Today, it comes to my heart to ask you all to pray for the prisoners who are on death row in the United States.
"I believe there are 13 or 15 of them. Let us pray that their sentence be commuted, changed. Let us think of these brothers and sisters of ours and ask the Lord for the grace to save them from death.”
