“ Against dignity”. Pope considers the death penalty “indismissable”

O pope Leo XIV today considered the death penalty “indismissable”, for attacking the dignity of the person and completely deprive the convicts of the possibility of redemption.

“ The death penalty is inadmissible because it undermines the inviolability and dignity of the person”, wrote the American pontiff in his nine accounts of social network X, in Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Polish and Latin.

He also argued that “the common good can be protected and the demands of justice safeguarded without resorting to capital punishment,” according to the EFE.

This is because, he argued, “effective prison systems have already been developed that protect citizens and at the same time do not completely deprive those guilty of the possibility of redemption,” he added, including the Hashtag #NoDeathPenalty (not the death penalty) in the publication.

The Pope thus joined the World Day initiatives against the Death Penalty, marked every year on October 10.

Although not alluding to these events, the words also arise in a context of intense debate in their home country, the United States, about the future execution of former Nidal Malik Hasan Army Major, sentenced to death for killing 13 people and injuring another 32 in the military base attack at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.

The execution is scheduled for December 3rd and will take place on the same military base, by firing a platoon of soldiers and will be broadcast live, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated that the former military condemned to death “deserves” to be executed.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recalled that the intention to publicly execute a person through a live broadcast can constitute a form of torture and represents an absolutely forbidden act.