'Wink-Wink' fellow Catholic President Joe Biden
Pope Francis prayed that the sentences of inmates on death row in the United States be commuted or changed, reported Vatican News.
His prayer during the Angelus address comes as US
President Joe Biden has the authority to commute the sentences of people on
federal death row before he leaves office in January 2025.
“Today, I feel compelled to ask all of you to pray for
the inmates on death row in the United States,” the Pope said. “Let us pray
that their sentences may be commuted or changed. Let us think of these brothers
and sisters of ours and ask the Lord for the grace to save them from death.”
“Let us pray that their sentences may be commuted or
changed. Let us think of these brothers and sisters of ours and ask the Lord
for the grace to save them from death.”
Anti-death penalty activists and associations have
been imploring President Biden to use his clemency powers before he leaves
office to spare the lives of about 40 federal death row inmates who are at
peril of imminent execution when the next president takes office.
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