In today’s episode from the archives, the most reverend Wilton D. Gregory, archbishop of Atlanta from 2005 to 2019, addresses the position of the Catholic Church on the death penalty in a speech given at the Emory Center for the Study of Law and Religion in 2012.
Now Archbishop of Washington, U.S., Wilton D. Gregory emphasizes the case of Troy Davis, a death-row inmate in Georgia who appealed to Pope Benedict XVI for clemency.
The Archbishop stresses that Catholic bishops have long been opposed to the death penalty, and that there are systemic flaws in the application of capital punishment.
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