Pope Francis is a vocal advocate against the death penalty, but the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church, usually refrains from naming specific countries that continue the practice
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“Today, it comes to my heart to ask all of you to pray for the prisoners in the United States who are on death row,” the pontiff said. “Let’s pray that their sentence would be commuted changed.”and changed the Catholic Church’s teachings in 2018 to specifically call for a ban on the practice.
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