Let's take a step back in time. A lot of people are saying that whilst they oppose the way Francis is handling it, essentially turning the Catechism into a lobbying tool for his personal opinions, they, too, oppose the death penalty. They say life imprisonment is the answer. The old 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' solution.
This in no way addresses the murderer doing life who kills again. And that happens often. If he's in for life, what has he got to lose? If he kills a guard or a fellow prisoner, what can the State do? Sentence him to another life term?
But my step back in time, just four short years ago, brings up something that seems to be being forgotten. Francis considers the 'lock 'em up and throw away the key' solution to be torture.
Pope Francis: Prison without hope of reentering society is ‘torture’
Pope Francis calls for abolishing death penalty and life imprisonment
So, I'm sure that will be shot down immediately by the Vatican. Seems to me that Francis basically thinks that killers only deserve a light slap on the wrist, and then should be freed to kill again.
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