New Pope Likely To Uphold Anti-Death Penalty Stance

The Houston Chronicle featured this article yesterday about the new Pope's death penalty views and how they will be closely watched in Harris county, Texas, which puts more people to death than any other county in the United States.

Catholic leaders and scholars said Tuesday that they expect that new Pope Benedict XVI will continue his predecessor's strong opposition to the death penalty.

Noting that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was one of Pope John Paul II's key policy people, they said he was clearly supportive of the former pontiff's condemnation of a "culture of death" that includes capital punishment. The stance prompted John Paul II to write then Gov. George W. Bush asking for clemency for death row inmates.

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