Re: Ask the Pope - Supreme Court and the Death Penalty
by
KevClark64
04/16/2008, 3:43 PM #
It's not up to the Supreme Court to determine whether lethal injection is a good idea. Their job is only to say whether the Constitution prohibits it. My guess is that the Pope would say that the Justices ought to do their job as honestly and diligently as possible, which may mean ruling that the Constitution does not prohibit lethal injection. It is then a political issue, not a legal one, whether to actually use lethal injections. On that question, the pope probably agrees with Evangelium Vitae, which says that capital punishment is rarely, if ever, justified.